The Colosseum

We left at nine, and jumped on the tram to the Colosseum. The huge brick structure is actually called the Flavian Ampatheater, but was called the Colosseum because of it's colosal size. It was origanally covered in marble, but it was all taken to build a certian huge cathedarl, who would perfer to say recycled then taken. *cough* St.Peter's *cough*. We found our tour giude, and went in. It is huge, and the nobles sat on the first floor, rich people on the second, the third for commoners, and the fourth for women. So we walked about, and some common myths where disspelled, they did not pit enemy against enemy, and the beasts rose out of the basment floor with chains. The shows were free, as well as meals... Anyway, you can find out more on the internet, so I will just move on. After the tour, we wandered around the general area for a while, as we were getting another free tour in an hour.
We found our tour giude, and walked 5 minutes away to Palentine hill, where the ruins of a great palace remain. They removed all of the marble for the same large church. The emporer (Who's name I can not recall) Even had his own stadium. His palace was devided into two parts: Public, and private.In the public part the marble was polished so he would be able to see if anyone was sneaking up on him to assainate him. The irony was, he was killed by a bowl of mushroom soup, compliments of his wife, whose lover he had killed.
After the palace, we went to see the ruins of the Roman Forum, not the internet one by the was. There are many ruined temples there. The ones best preserved are the senate, and a temple that was turned into a church. All the rest are simply columns and a bit of a base. The temple of Remus is pretty well preserved as well.
Then we went for lunch as we were very hungry. We went to a place for pasta. It was very good. Then we went to the Musei Capitolini on the top of Capital hill. We really just wanted to see the foot of Constentine, becuase we have seen it everywhere. But we ended up going around it and seeing a lot of other slightly boring stuff. After that we went home.




Josephine