mini gallery Colosseo e dintorni

The Amphitheater Flavio is the monument that characterizes Rome, they are few those that don't know it but irony of the fate the name that characterizes it doesn't belong him," Colosseum": it derives from a colossal statue set by Nerone in the immediate proximities. It is born for wish of Vespasiano, as graven above, but he was inaugurated by Tito (always of the dynasty of the Flavis) with 100 days of games. And' the greater Roman arena and before being naked of the decorations it appeared stately and rich of marbles and statues, it also had a great veiling to shade the spectators that he was maneuvered by a body select marine. With the fall of the empire Romano was naked and defrauded of all the ornaments. In the 14° century, to dispossession by now almost complete, sacred place was raised to in which harvest and Catholic processions were celebrated.

the suggestive Via Crucis today he develops.

Entry: Whole € 11.00 comprehensive of entry to the Palatine

Schedules: 1 September - 30 September: 9-19:00

1 October to preceding Saturday the last Sunday of October: 9-18:30

from last Sunday of October to February 15: 9-16:30

16 February - 15 March: 9-17:00

16 March to preceding Saturday the last Sunday of March: 9-17:30

from last Sunday of March to August 31: 9-19:30

Transports: subway "B" stop Colosseo

 

The Arc of Costantino it is the most classical example of the decadent way to defraud and to strip the temples and the monuments of the precedents Emperors Costantino made to erect this arc of triumph to celebrate the victory in the battle of Bridge Milvio in the 312 AC where it defeated Massenzio.The archaeologists have recognized parts of age Adrianea, statues of Daci us of the Forum of Traiano and other blocks coming from temples and monuments