We were deciding where to go when a young
man told us about a small group English walking tour (citylightstours.com) of the
ruins, so since we like smaller groups, we decided to go (35€) and it was so
worth it! It was a group of 8 and had a
wonderful Italian English guide who had worked as a tour guide for many
years. It also included entrance tickets
to the Forum and the Colosseum which otherwise had long lines and those tickets
almost paid for our tour. We had individual
earphones which made it easy to hear her.
(We also saw lots of LARGE groups with the earphones too…but we sure didn’t
want to be part of a large group..but the earphones are a great addition to a
tour group.) It was so much better than
going on our own there.
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| Marketplace - actually like Wall Street |
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| Forum |
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| Walking into the Colosseum, like you were attending |
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Suddenly, you're there!
They've built a stage for progras. |
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| Colosseum, beneath the floor |
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| Colosseum seating |
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| Colosseum - how it was |
Our
guide told us that there were several layers of ruins since people just rebuilt
and also took a lot of building materials to build their homes or other
structures. It wasn’t considered ‘vandalism’
then since no one particularly cared about saving for historical purposes. Thus, sometimes there were not many stones
left of an ancient structure.
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