THE COLOSSEUM - ROME ITALY

One of the roads that led into the Colosseum. You can still see the ruts in the rocks
where the chariots drove over them. It was pretty hot that day, just days before
I was using the umbrella for rain! Going in May would have made things much more
pleasurable than June! To hot! To hot!

Construction started in 72 AD under Vespasian & completed in 80 AD under Titus.

Don't those years just blow you away!! WOW!

Considered one of the greatest works of Roman Architecture & Roman Engineering.
More than 2/3rds of the building has been removed. The Colosseum had 50,000-

55-000 seating capacity & was designed for easy crowd disperal; the entire audience

could exit the bldg. in 5 minutes.

There is still tons of excavation going on around the Colosseum.

We were looking anxiously ahead to see our first glimpse of

the Colosseum & this was it!!