Our Colosseum tour.

So our first part of our tour was the Colosseum… Tour guide was good but it was a lot of information thrown at us so here is what we remember.
(Note we are so 😴 so we will do our best)

- Poor people entered last and had to sit in the top rows. 6th floor.
- Gladiators actually don’t kill each other because that would diminish the profits of their owners.
- It took 10 years to train the gladiators and if I remember correctly christians were not gladiators.
- At certain times animals would be brought from the bottom to defeat one another and/ or people.
* It was a people activated rope pulley system to hoist the animals up to the fighting level first floor.
- During world war two in the 1930s they added additional Brick and mortar to the structure to help keep some of it standing.
- A large statue of bronze or gold was built outside the Colosseum. It was ransacked by thieves and melted down.Read more