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The Colosseum, originally known as Amphitheater Flavio or simply as Amphitheatrum, is an anfitreato of the ancient Rome, with all probability the most famous in the world; it was able to contain 45.000 spectators and it was used for the gladiators shows. |
The building forms an ellipse of 527 ms of circumference with aces that measure 188 ms x 156 ms. The arena in the inside measures 86 ms for 54 ms, with a surface of 3.357 m². The actual height reaches the 48,5 ms. but originally reached the 52 ms. |
Its construction began under the Emperor Vespasiano, in 72 AD around, probably financed, as other public works of the period, with the loot of the conquest in Jerusalem happened in 70 AD. |
The building started in the area occupied by the gardens of the Domus Aurea of Nerone, built after the 64 Rome great fire. The Colosseum entertained the games of the anfitreato, that included: struggles among animals (venationes), convicts' killing from fierce animals or other types of executions (noxii), and finally fights among gladiators (munera). |
The last gladiators shows are recorded in 404 and the last hunting in 523. Gradually the taste of the public was changed, but the principal motive for the end of the games was the financial and military crisis of the western part of the empire, together with the a lot of invasions suffered from Italy. |
In the Middle Ages it entertained accommodations, churches, stalls and stores, and it became a fortress/residence of the baronial families of Rome. Paradoxically its destruction was accelerated during the Renaissance, because it was used as extracts of materials for the construction of innumerable buildings in the city of the Popes. Finally, at the beginning of the 800’s the restaurations began again. |
The Colosseum is the monument more visited of Rome, the address is obviously, Square of Colosseum, and if you turn around for Rome is difficult however not to see it. The Colosseum is the navel of the city: to few hundred meters from Piazza Venezia and next to Forums. |
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