Colosseo/ Colloseum

The Colloseum is one of those places that many people immediately recognize.  I love looking at it as it is such a huge, incredible structure which has survived despite being looted and trashed by various popes and invaders. It was a massive stadium that could seat up to 80,000 people. Stadio Olimpico, the home ground of ASRoma and Lazio can seat around 73,000.

This diagram that was on an information board within the coloseo shows how the structure worked on different levels.

The underground section visible from the first tier

Half of the arena area has been covered with a wooden platform to show how it was in Roman times

A fairly intact Roman inscription which survived the removal and ransacking of all things Roman by the Popes and other vandals

An engraved drawing found at the colosseum of two gladiators fighting and a rather angry dog

The views of the Palatine and the forum from the colosseum are beautiful:

I woudn't be patting any of those horses