Friday, May 30, 2014

Colosseum

We went on a City Wonders Colosseum Underground tour on Thursday, May 15. This tour took us under the Colosseum arena floor, on the arena floor, and high up in the third tier of seats. (It also took us through the Forum and Palatine Hill, but that'll be another post.)

Walking onto the arena floor


View at floor level
(There used to be a floor all the way across, of course.)


Gus 
Contemplating life as a gladiator


Under the arena floor


Ground level
Looking down an old corridor


One of many underground passageways


 Third-tier passageway
People would walk through here to get to their seats.



View from above


 Another view from above


Gladiator pigeon plotting my demise


View looking northwest from the Colosseum
The Monument to Vittorio Emanuele II can be seen in the background 
(white with statues on top)


 View to the west overlooking the Forum

2 comments:

Cranberry Morning said...

I think Gus would make a super gladiator and way cutter than Russell Crowe. I think I'd like to see the Colosseum even more than Pompeii. I'd think it's a lot easier to imagine now, after being there, the Colosseum filled with people, lions, and Christians, among others.

Cranberry Morning said...

I really can spell. 'Cuter' . it's this stupid phone.