The Colosseum

After a busy morning at the forum, we headed over to the Colosseum. This is just such an iconic place and you can feel the history still living, if that makes sense to anyone other than me.

 

 You can walk around the outside and take photos anywhere. This is the spot everyone seems to agree is the best. You can see some of the repairs that have been done to keep it from crumbling even more. Turns out they built it near a fault line.

 Many of the stairways inside are closed to keep visitors safe. Others are still open and we toured the entire place. Be careful because some of the steps were more than half the height of my kids. These aren't modern day steps by any means.

 Behind us you can see the interior of the Colosseum. They have part of the floor removed so you can see everything that was going on under it. These rooms contained stage equipment, rooms for the animals, and rooms for the humans to prepare for the performances. They even built elevators using counterweights to get everything from one level to another.

My little gladiators.