However, after Nero committed suicide in 68 CE, the Roman Emperors Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian built on top of Nero's Palace, effectively burying it. It is also likely that Nero used the aqueducts to build his palace because they did not give water to civilians anymore for a time. Some people claim that he intentionally started the fire to make room for his palace on Esquiline Hill.

Nero's Golden Palace was a lavish palace built by the Roman Emperor Nero after the Great Fire of Rome in 64 CE. The Italian Assassin Ezio Auditore da Firenze visited this lair shortly after his arrival in Rome. The palace survived underground, interred in soil, and during the Renaissance it housed a Lair of Romulus. It was later completely obliterated and superseded by the Baths of Emperor Trajan which were built above it. Nero's Golden Palace (Latin: Domus Aurea) was a vast landscaped palace built by the Emperor Nero in ancient Rome.