Do you know who is responsible for the great fire of Rome, and the real reason for the fire?

Nero was searching for a new plot of land to build a banquet house, near to the downtown area; one day in the summer of 64 AD he was beside his horse on the Palatine Hill when his attention was taken from the top of the hill to a huge space below. 

This space is the present day Colosseum. In 64 AD this area was covered with buildings and trees,so, in order to destroy it, Nero had the crazy idea to burn it.

 Burning the buildings down would make it so easy. 

It would be easy to compensate the people with other houses outside this area and then build his Golden House.

 Nero had prepared a concert and told his guards, “I need you to burn the area during the concert so that Romans will be busy and no one can stop the fire. 

Nero had prepared a new kind of alcohol so that anyone drinking it would become drunk in moments. 

While all were drunk

One of the spectators interrupted the concert. 

“There’s a fire”, he said, “fire, fire!”

But Nero continued singing.

Again the man said, “Flame will burn the city!”

So Nero told the audience, “let’s go to protect our city!”, he said, “Lets drink one more  drink to stop our fear!” This is known as the Great Fire of Rome.

The Great Fire of Rome began in the stadium of the Circus Maximus, and people said that loud and happy singing could be heard as the flames began to cover the stadium.

For one long week in July of 64 AD, the Great Fire of Rome laid waste to three of the fourteen neighborhoods and left seven others damaged beyond recognition. Rome would need to be almost completely rebuilt.