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The Amazing Colosseum

I'm going to confess that our first sight of the Colosseum came after a wonderful meal. With free-flowing wine.

We were all the bus, singing "YMCA" and doing the gestures in our seats. We turned a corner and - there's the Colosseum!

That's the kind of memory that makes a trip unique.

We visited the Colosseum the next day, in the daylight. Still pretty impressive!

Here are pictures from inside the Colosseum, including renovation work.

When my daughter visited Rome a few years ago, people could walk out onto that wooden platform.
There was no one on it the day we were there, and we never got to that side to see why.

As impressive as the Colosseum is today, can you imagine it clad in marble?
That's the way it was until it was used as, basically, a quarry, by the builders of the Vatican, for one.

See those holes? Those are from the bronze pins (also taken and melted down) that were used to hold the marble in place.

To really get an idea of what it was like when we visited, here's our little movie.

The next day, we went to the Pantheon and other areas of Rome before visiting the Pope's summer residence, Castel Gandolfo.

All of these pictures are the property of Margaret and William Wilkins and may not be copied without permission. To ask for permission, email maggiejmoore@yahoo.com.