Coloseum reconstruction

This photo shows the newly reconstructed section of the Coloseum. You can see how they are putting in flooring and stone seating. I think it's fine as it helps to see what it was really like at the time but I hope they don't go overboard and reconstrut the whole thing, that would just be wrong.

Roma Day 2

November 18th 2007
Today we spent visiting Imperial Rome. We began with the Colosseum which was Herve's best part of the trip Mine was St Clement's church and the Pantheon (for Lauren it was St Peters and the gelato, for Christine it was the Trevi Fountain and the pizza). We took the audio guide for the girls but they thought it was pretty dry and boring so we just wandered around and imagined the days of gladiat ... read more

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more

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