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1/08/2011

Rome's Colosseum

If you're in a western Mediterranean cruise on the road, not one of Rome by the Colosseum.The Colosseum AD of the Flavian imperial family 100tägigen 80th began with a dedication ceremony and was a technical masterpiece. It was built on the site where once stood the palace of Emperor Nero.The sand became a pool of water where water plays and sea battles took place on ships. In the arena there were passages and rooms where they performed the show prepared. Gladiators were preparing there before the fight and wild animals like lions, bears, leopards have been detained there and transported to the elevators on the platform. The crowds were delighted with these programs and remains happy. They were entertained there, not only with bread, especially pork, which was eaten everything in that time.
The Colosseum was the largest arena of the ancient world, with a base of 12 meters deep, and built in an oval shape, with a diameter of 188 meters measured. More than 50,000 people had a place there and no seats are distributed according to the price of the ticket, but after the social rank. So women and slaves only in the back row there was room for. A solar sail sailors served, protected from sun and rain. The main attraction was the fight of gladiators, which was contested by prisoners, slaves and criminals, but also from the impoverished nobility, who volunteered. Those who had survived three years the struggle has been released. 264 BC. held the first gladiatorial games and AD 438.set . 523 AD. the Colosseum, was closed. If one looks today at the Coliseum in your cruise, you can still almost complete exterior walls and sand for the base programs and walls.

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