Posted on 10/23/2022 8:29:46 PM PDT by bitt
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Are you not entertained!?
I remember whizzing on the side of the Colosseum in downtown Cincinnati. Circa 1980ish, :>)
After driving all day to get to Kennedy Airport in New York, we took a very crowded overnight flight to Rome. Our final destination was Brindisi. I didn’t sleep on the plane, and arriving at Da Vinci airport we were told we had just missed the 9:00 am to Brindisi; but not to worry, there was another leaving at 8:00 pm.
What to do with all that time? Why check the bags and go tour Rome!
So we did. Walked all over: the Vatican, the Forum, and finally sat on the sidewalk right up against the Colloseum wall. I fell asleep. My bride watched over me. When I woke I told her I had a dream I was a gladiator.
Not really, as I slept like the dead. But a cool story to tell her, no?
Wasn't there a joke that had the ending, "but he was glad-he-ate-her"?
I saw the Colosseum. Worth it.
What do you expect for free tickets? You didn't have to go fishing in Idaho to get mauled.
The Colosseum in Verona Italy is 50 years older than the one in Rome and in such good shape you can see shows there.
Here are the shows for the rest of 2022 and 2023.
https://www.arena.it/en/arena-di-verona/calendar
There was an 8 pt series on history about the colossum
Very Cool.👍
Following the making of Christianity the established and official religion of the Empire what use was made of the Collosuem ?
A million animals and over 400,000 people killed in 400 years in the Colosseum.
Informative website. Thanks for posting.
Seneca was one amazing guy to have gone to the Coloseum before it was built!
I have been there a couple of times. Hugely impressive place. I still don’t know where 87,000 went to take a leak...
The demand for animals was in the uncounted millions and was responsible for the extinction of numerous North African species.
my understanding is a lot of the stones were torn down and used for newer buildings.
LOL! Why didn’t I say that?
My wife and I went to Rome in 2001. We arrived at the airport at night, took a train to downtown Rome. All we had was the name and address of our hotel. We got a taxi whose driver said it would cost 30,000 Lira (about $15). We went on a very long ride to the hotel. When we got there he said the bill as 120,000 Lira, 30,000 for me, 30,000 for my wife and 30,000 for each suitcase. I figured it came to about $60 so I paid it. The next day we went for a walk and discovered that the hotel was only about 3 blocks from the train station.
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