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Touring the Rome Colosseum with a Rome private driver guide
Post n°2 pubblicato il 20 Maggio 2007 da mrblogrome
Tag: Agrippa, airport, ancient, Augustus, city, Civitavecchia, civitavecchia excursion, Colosseum, day, dock tour, dock tours, dock transfer, dock transfers, driver, eternal, excursion, fountain, full, limo, optimize, Pantheon, port, Rafael, roman forum, rome, rome cruise tour, rome day tour, rome day tours, rome daytrip excursion, rome daytrip excursions, rome guided tour, rome guided tours, rome limo service, rome limo tour guide, rome limousine service, rome limousine tour, rome limousine tour guide, rome prestigious tour, rome prestigious tours, rome shore excursion, shore, sightseeing, tour, Trevi, visit, visiting Discovering ancient Rome with Rome personal escort If you have planned to visit Rome in your Rome travel during the high season, you can not miss the visit to the old city and its ruins: at the end of your walk inside the Roman Fforum you will see the elliptical shape of the most famous stadium in the ancient world. The Coliseum, (the Flavian Amphitheatre) is one of Rome's most famous buildings and enduring monuments to the culture of the ancient Rome. Construction was started during the Emperor Vespasian around 72 AD. His son Titus reigned on Rome over its completion and the official opening ceremonies, about 8 years later, in 80 AD. It was built near the site of Nero's lake which was part of the Golden House. This is significant in that his successor, Vespasian wanted to erase the memory of Nero's extravagant reign from the minds of Romans. It got its popular name, the Colosseum, because of Nero's colossus (120 ft. high) statue of himself, which was nearby. The huge theater was originally built on four floors. The first three had arched entrances, while the fourth floor utilized rectangular doorways. The floors each measured between 10,5-13,9 meters (32-42 feet) in height. The total height of the construction was approximately 48 meters (144 feet). The Rome arena measured 79 x 45 meters (237-135 feet), and consisted of wood and sand. The Colosseum had a total spectator capacity of 50,000. The Amphitheater is built of travertine outside, and of tufa and brick in the interior. The main pedestals were built of marble blocks weighing 5 metric tons (11,000 pounds.) Initially the huge marble blocks were held together by metal-pins. However, the pins were soon carried off by thieves, and had to be replaced by mortar. The total amount of marble needed for the construction measured approximately 100,000 cubic meters. It was carried by 200 ox-pulled carts, which supplied a sufficient flow of needed materials bringing them from Tibur (Tivoli) to Rome. There were no less than 76 numbered entrances and 4 additional entrances divided like the cardinal points. The Colosseum was designed for easy crowd dispersal; the entire audience could exit the building in five minutes. The interior was divided into three parts: the arena, the podium, and the cavea. Now more than two-thirds of the original building has been removed and the rows of the seats in the cavea are missing. It is very similar to other amphitheaters except this one is much bigger.But not the biggestone in Rome. We suppose to believe that this Rome building was used for entertainment for around 400 years when under the emperor Dietrich from the Ostrogoth were celebrated there the last games. A wooden floor covered subterranean chambers where the gladiators and animals were kept waiting to perform. There is some debate over the idea that the Rome Colosseum was occasionally flooded for mock naval battles. There were canals in place that could have been used for this purpose but the brick used in construction was not the same type of material that they normally used in water resistant materials in other parts of Rome.
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