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[4K] A Look at The Colosseum - Rome, Italy
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Date: 2019-09-10
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ziggy 2shus
I visited the Colosseum in 1970 and I was the only person in line. cost to enter 350 lira. 350 LIRA. wait a second, 1 = 1000 lira. so the cost to enter was 35 cents. There were only a few people inside, and as I looked around I saw lots of concrete. I thought, they have ruined the Colosseum with all this modern concrete. Years later I found out that this was 2000 year old Roman concrete. After the collapse of the Roman Empire the formula for making concrete was lost for 1. 400 years. The main structure for the Pantheon in Rome is almost 100% concrete.
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I visited the Colosseum in 1970 and I was the only person in line. cost to enter 350 lira. 350 LIRA. wait a second, 1 = 1000 lira. so the cost to enter was 35 cents. There were only a few people inside, and as I looked around I saw lots of concrete. I thought, they have ruined the Colosseum with all this modern concrete. Years later I found out that this was 2000 year old Roman concrete. After the collapse of the Roman Empire the formula for making concrete was lost for 1. 400 years. The main structure for the Pantheon in Rome is almost 100% concrete.
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Theta
I was there last week Rome is an incredibly beautiful place. But if you're very limited on time, I'd skip the colosseum and do Vatican City instead. St Peter's is much more impressive than the colosseum which was actually pretty underwhelming and IMO over hyped. If you only see the colosseum from the outside, you've not missed much - but a ticket gets you into the Forums too (which are better than the colosseum.
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I was there last week Rome is an incredibly beautiful place. But if you're very limited on time, I'd skip the colosseum and do Vatican City instead. St Peter's is much more impressive than the colosseum which was actually pretty underwhelming and IMO over hyped. If you only see the colosseum from the outside, you've not missed much - but a ticket gets you into the Forums too (which are better than the colosseum.
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Lawrence Stanley
I always have such mixed emotions about the colosseum. While the architecture is amazing, I am always sickened to think of how many Christians were slaughtered there just for being Christians; the structure stands as a reminder soaked in blood of the price that was paid for evangelism, and indeed is paid even to this day in many places.
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I always have such mixed emotions about the colosseum. While the architecture is amazing, I am always sickened to think of how many Christians were slaughtered there just for being Christians; the structure stands as a reminder soaked in blood of the price that was paid for evangelism, and indeed is paid even to this day in many places.
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ReyJ
Tip: the tickets for Colosseum and Roman Forum are Park Hoppers. If the ticket queue for the Colosseum is too long, you can buy the same ticket over at the Roman Forum.
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Tip: the tickets for Colosseum and Roman Forum are Park Hoppers. If the ticket queue for the Colosseum is too long, you can buy the same ticket over at the Roman Forum.
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