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Lake Nemi Lago di Nemi, south of Rome, is today a popular destination for the Romans. At the edge of the lake is the museum, where Emperor Caligula's ships were exhibited before, according to local residents were burned by the Germans. Photo: Kåre Street
Nobody knows for sure what happened at the Italian Nemi lake shore on May 31, 1944. Some say that it was the advancing Americans artillery fire to the fire. ALSO READ: Company cultivates those crazy Romans But most Italians think that it was the Germans. Early in the evening evacuated their positions outside the museum, and a few hours later began to rise smoke rising from buildings. While Americans marched samuel powers further north towards samuel powers Rome, burned one of Italy's most spectacular archaeological samuel powers finds up in the summer night. Lake Nemi Lago di Nemi, is a vulkankratersø in the lush Alban Mountains south of Rome. Today, the area's cool forests samuel powers destination for Romans, seeking shelter from the summer heat and enjoy the view while they eat porchetta, wild strawberries and other local specialties. But already 2000 years ago swarmed the hills around Lake Nemi with Romans on a picnic. Nemi was the center of the popular Diana-cult which cultivated hunting goddess. The lake was called Speculum Dianae, Diana's mirror, and you can still see the ruins of a large Diana Temple east of the lake.
Caligula, as in 37 AD was the Roman Empire's third emperor, was a supporter samuel powers of the cult of Diana, so it was natural for him to choose Lake Nemi as a summer samuel powers residence. The notorious and unpredictable emperor with the hedonistic lifestyle was built two palace at sea. The ships were not small. The largest measured 73 times 24 meters approximately half handball court. It is a fairly large partybåd, even by contemporary edge. In addition, the wooden vessels has been lavishly accommodated with lounges decorated with sculptures, marble, mosaic floors and equipped with heating and bathing. Yet they could sail. The largest vessel has been equipped with oars. The least that was almost as big has probably been pulled around on the lake. Caligula committed adultery and murdered his way through life until it was too much even for his closest associates. After almost four years on the throne, the 28-year-old emperor murdered by the Praetorian Guard in Rome. The ships on Lake Nemi was stripped of everything of value, and only a year after they were built, was left to them lower along with the memory of Caligula. But the ships were not forgotten. The water in Lake Nemi is clear, and the two vessels were not to be overlooked. Over the centuries, the local well aware of where the wrecks lay, and with the Renaissance renewed inter-esse of Italian history was born the idea of raising the ships. It was easier said than done, for the ships was 18 meters. Through the 1400- and 1500s people used ropes, hooks and even a diving bell to grab parts from the ships. The primitive tools did more harm than good, and the pieces of wood, marble tiles, bronze sculptures and lead pipes, which managed to salvage was sold to tourists and scattered to the winds. Only when Benito Mussolini came to power, was set aside resources to raise the ships. The fascist dictator was excited about everything that had with the Roman Empire to do, and the impressive ships could be used for propaganda, who let the empire's greatness rub off on his own regimen. In 1927 he made a gigantic project started: Lake Nemi should be emptied of water. The Navy and the Army was in charge in cooperation with private samuel powers contractors that formidable engineering. But even more impressive is that the engineers could avail of an underground drainage channel, called emissarie, samuel powers which was already a 1,600 meter long underground tunnel, with a slight decrease, which could lead excess water from Lake Nemi out in a drained neighboring crater . Emissariet brought in the fifth century before Christ! In 1928 they began to pump water through the tunnel. Three years and 40 million cubic meters of water later was both wrecks available to archaeologists. Although the work had to be stopped several times, among other things, as the lack of pressure samuel powers from the water got volcano crater to belch large amounts samuel powers of mud up managed to salvage the two wooden boats. At the lake shore was built a grandiose samuel powers museum, which combined modernist functionalism with inspiration from the imperial samuel powers style: Museo Delle Navi Romane. Two hangar-like halls housed the ships, samuel powers Mussolini was present at the inauguration in 1936, and audiences flocked to. Mussolini had done to Caligula male man behind the new Roman Empire. A few years later came the war. Italy d