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"As long as the Coliseum, there will Rome when the Colosseum falls, Rome will also fall, but when Rome falls, the world will fall"
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The Colosseum, the ancient Romans called "Anphitheatrum Flavlum", was built by Emperor Vespasian in 72 AD about, and inaugurated by his son Titus nell'80 d.c.
The building was occupied in out because of Nero palace, the Domus Aurea, built after the great fire of Rome in 64, which was to be enclosed a..
Discover settemeraviglie The Coliseum it has made. During the night Lisbon the famous Roman monument was proclaimed with six other exceptional sites on the planet 'New wonder' in the world after a universal poll sponsored by Swiss-C..
  • Circumference: 527 m
  • Height: 57 m
  • Capacity: 70,000 seats
  • dell'ellisse major axis: 188 m
  • minor axis dell'ellisse: 156 m
  • plans: the first consisting of 3 arches framed by half, the fourth floor and divided by pilasters and there were inserted pali that supported the great velario segments to repair the spectators from the sun.
  • the arena Size: 76 x 46 m..
  • During the Middle Ages, the Flavian Amphitheater was first occupied by some civilian houses taken in vain corridors ring the ground floor and then in the twelfth century, was incorporated in the fortifications of the powerful aristocratic family of Frangipane. Sienna was a fortified structure estesissima, bringin..
    Gladiators (the name derives from the sword, a small short sword used ..
    They were the emperors Flavi to provide for a first Rome amphitheatre stable and worthy of the greatness of capital: the work began during the reign of Vespasian in the area between Palatino, Esquilino and Celio, over and above the pond that had to find within the Domus Aurea of Nero. Vespasian, demagogicamente speaking, returned to people what the tyrant-Nero had wanted to ourselves. Individually..
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  • The Colosseum 88.9 %
  • The Wolf 7.4 %
  • S.P.Q.R 3.7 %
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