The Colosseum tour

Today we woke up early and caught the metro to Colosseo. Can you guess where it took us? What is in Rome and has Coloss in it? That is right, the Colosseum!
When we walked out of the station we instantly saw the Colosseum. We found our tour guide and set off with our group.

First we went into the Palatine Hill. It is where the Roman Emperor lived. We saw all the old ruins and our tour guide told us what would have been there. At one bit he told us about a private circus for the Emperor, and again when we saw a small fountain about the Emperor's gardens.
We also saw the Circus Maximus. It is where the Romans would have had chariot races. They would do seven laps of 1200 meters.

We then went to the Forum Romanum where there were more ruins.

We then got to what everyone was waiting for, Drum roll please, The Colosseum! He told us about it and how the Senators had front row seats with their names carved into their chairs. When a Senator died, they would scrub the name of the dead Senator and carve a new one in the chair.

We learned that to protect the crowds they had special walls so that animals could not escape into the crowd. At the top they had elephant tusks so that if they jumped out they would impale themselves. They also had special roller type things on the walls so that if the animals got a grip, they would roll down.

We found out that the entrances and exits to the Colosseum were called the Vomitoria, which were small corridors where lots of people (60,000 people fitted in the Colosseum) exited. Using this method they could fill the Colosseum in 15 min and empty it in 5 min! This is where we get the word Vomit from.

We explored the Colosseum a bit more and then left to get some food. I had a lasagna, Papa had Quattro Formaggi Gnocchi (four cheese Gnocchi), and Mama had Spaghetti Pomodoro (tomato spaghetti).

I really enjoyed the Colosseum today, and I hope that we can come again.

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