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..
The Colosseum has done it. On the night of July 7, 2007, in Lisbon, the famous Roman monument was proclaimed with six other great sites on the planet 'New Wonder' of the world after a survey sponsored by the Universal Swiss-Canadian filmmaker Bernard Weber, attended by 100 million people of all the continents according to organizers.
the Coliseum were elected New Seven Wonders of the World, the Great Wall of China, the ancient Jordan..
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.
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, bringing together the Circus Maximus, the Palatine and thirteen arches of the Colosseum Party faces the Lateran. Medieval structures of today no trace remains, but they also had to occupy the the second floo..
According to some medieval myths seem to represent the Coliseum entrance leading directly into hell, where, at dusk, the souls of the dead to wander in search of eternal peace that perhaps will never find, 'cause perished violently and prematurely.
Another legend says that many plants from distant countries, which are attecchite in the Coliseum area, have been brought by the sandals of the pas..
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..