The Colosseum, the ancient Romans called "Anphitheatrum Flavlum", was built dall'Imperatore 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 valley between the hills of Velia, Palatine, Celio, Oppio, and Fagutale and was crossed by a river that ran in direction of the Tiber along a route that roughly follows the current route of San Gregorio.
The presence of the pond was abundantly exploited to save on foundations, made of travertine pillars resting on a ring continuous concrete, with spacing only by some fognoli for scrolling of groundwater that otherwise would have flooded the entire area.
Nearby was a colossal statue of Nero, from which the Legend has it that the name derives Colosseum. After the killing of this Emperor's statue was rimodellata for Sol depict the god of the Sun, adding the appropriate solar corona. The Colossus was then moved from its original location to make room at the temple of Venus and Rome under Adriano. The site of colossal base of the statue after the move is currently marked by a .. (continua)

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-Canadian filmmaker Bernard Weber, attended by 100 million people of all continents according to organizers.

With the Colosseum were elected New Seven Wonders of the World, the Great Wall of China, the ancient Jordanian city of Petra, the Statue of Christ Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, the Inca ruins of Machu Picchu in Peru, Maya pyramid of Chichen Itza in Mexico, and the Taj Mahal (India). The proclamation of 'New Seven Wonders' was made during a megaspettacolo in the stadium Luz, whose rights have been sold to dozens of broadcasters, with a potential audience of 1.6 billion viewers. The date, 07/07/07 (July 7 2007), obviously was not chosen by chance: all seven such as the 'New Seven Wonders'.

clicking here is possible to visit virtually all the 7 Wonders of the World.. (continua)