The Colosseum & the Forum

The Coliseum & the Forum

This is the subway stop for the area

First glimpse of the Coliseum Built in 80 AD, seated over 50,000	Getting a little closer	Home of Augustus and later, Flavian Built in 1 BC
Digging at the base of the Home	Another view	A mural delineating the birth of the Roman Empire on the side of the home of Augustus
Next set of murals	A close-up	Barbara, Ben, Nick, Wyatt & Ethan
Ethan & Nick check out a gladiator	Some view! A sheet of canvas covered the entire building in the summer!!	And more
Some reconstruction	One of 76 entries into the interior	The holes you see were used to hold the marble on the walls. The marble was stripped to clad newer buildings being built
An "After" & "Before" marble cladding	The Coliseum with the Forum in the background on the left	Wall reconstruction sample
Another view	The Forum!!	How about those horses!
The old and new	The Arch of Constantine, the first Christian Emperor built in 300 AD	A side view of part of the Forum
Another view	More Forum	Part of the ancient Imperial Palace (from a bus)
Here is the Old & the New!	Part of the city wall	Traffic on the historic APPIAN WAY!
	On the way out of the area