Rome's Colosseum opened in 80 C.E. and is still the world's largest amphitheater. Here are 15 Colosseum facts you can use to impress your friends and family. ... Interior of the Colosseum in Rome.

Unfortunately, I didn't have time to visit the nearby attractions. So I was excited that the Colosseum's interior also has views of surrounding Ancient Roman sites, like the Roman Forum.

For 2,000 years, the Colosseum in Rome could be explored from the interior and exterior of its walls. Meanwhile, the underground part of the arena was inaccessible. The Colosseum pictured on March ...

The traces confirmed that while the Colosseum today is a fairly monochrome gray travertine rock, red brick and moss-covered marble, in its day its interior halls were a rich and expensive Technicolor.

"Interior View of the Colosseum in Rome," 1804 (François-Marius Granet) December 5, 2017. Share. Save. When the botanist Richard Deakin examined Rome’s Colosseum in the 1850s, he found 420 ...

But the recent restoration of a 17th-century wall painting of ancient Jerusalem on one of the Colosseum’s main interior arches is shedding new light on another centuries-old use of the Roman ...

Palazzo Manfredi is a luxury hotel that impresses with 180-degree-views of the Colosseum. Palazzo Manfredi When it comes to hotels with great views, Rome delivers.