Rome is a magnificent city with a ton of beautifully crafted building.
We have spent two days walking through Rome and have not seen half of the main tourist attractions. Colosseum was one of the first places we visited and we were amazed at the enormous size of that building. There is a metro station right in front of the Colosseum and as you just get out of the metro station you realize how really big it is.
You will be standing at the lowest point and looking up at the highest point of the Colosseum. The view is something really special.
Rome's Birthday
We have arrived in Rome right when the people of Rome are celebrating its birthday. That is 21st of April every year and many of the tourist spots are free to enter. Around the city people are walking dressed as they would have been at the time of the Roman Empire.
Some of the places such as restaurants and cafes are serving free food and entertainment. For example, at the place where we lived there was a fitness club which served open air fitness bike riding with a couch, fitness gymnastics lesson and a free open buffet.
Shocking facts about Colosseum:
- It is 48 meters (157 ft) high and could fit approximately 65,000 people in one sitting. As a comparison Yankees Stadium in New York has 54,251 seats and Medison Garden can fit only 20,789.
- Colosseum is over 2,000 years old while still in good shape today. It was built in 70-80 AD and since then was badly damaged by fire and earthquakes.
- Colosseum was build in just 9 years. Even in todays standards it is very quick considering the size of that building.
- It was build mostly using the manual labour of approx. 60,000 Jewish prisoners (slaves) brought to Rome after the war.
- It is estimated that over the course of 390 years of amphitheater (Colosseum) being used for entertainment more than 400,000 people and 1,000,000 animals died.
Facts Sources: Wiki and Softschools.com
Before visiting Colosseum we did not know all of these facts about Colosseum and it looked so peaceful and innocent at the time. But when you realize how many people were killed for this place to be build and to function you change your certainly change your attitude.
On the photo below you can see many of the outfits that people would wear at the time of the gladiator times and the time of the Roman Empire.
Roman Empire and Gladiators
I would certainly recommend everyone to visit this place especially on Rome's birthday just to be able to comprehend how massive Colosseum actually is and to feel the Roman Empire spirit. At that time people were much more tolerant towards human sacrifice, death and gladiator fights, so I could imagine that Colosseum was considered a normal place to visit, just like watching the football game on a Friday night.
Source: @Pixabay by Madrover
Just imagine for one minute that you are actually there on the stage in the middle of the gladiator fight. Would you be frightened to death. Or if you would actually be one of the gladiators fighting with a lion. I can't fully comprehend how that might feel and how brave some of these gladiators were.
Other than that, if you do not look at the cruel part of Rome, it is absolutely magnificent.
It is just incredible to walk through the narrow streets of Rome and see the beauty and majesty of the Roman architecture. The countless amounts of Piazza's (squares) with fountains, sculptures, flowers, and colorful and beautiful buildings. It seems that every building is unique and there is no identical building.
But more on Rome in later posts... don't want to go off-topic right now.
Wish that you get a chance to see Rome, because there is no similar place in the World
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