Um,
I take a lot of pictures just because things are pretty. There's no real
purpose to this one.
Here
is the Forum. I have better pics from when we visited it during the day.
More
Forum. You can see where excavations are still happening. The deeper
they dig, the more remanents of ancient cities they find.
hehe...pretty...and
statues... Rome really is very beautiful at Sunset.
More
Forum
uh,
statue.
more
statues (But just look how nifty they all are!!!!)
Hee
hee! This is one of my favs from all the pics.
This
too.
These
last few are all from the Vittorio monument. It's amazing.
The
main part of it is a tomb to an unknown soldier from WWI, and there are live
guards and fires keeping vigil 24/7
I
love statues
Here
you can see part of one of the fires.
Ok,
this is the last photo from our first night. Time for some good sleep!!!
Here
is the inside of the colosseum!!! Like I said...huge.
As
you may have noticed, the floor is missing...When the floor was in, they used to
fill the colosseum with water and stage naval battles with real ships!!
Down
here is where they kept the gladiators and wild animals that popped out of trap
doors. In later times it was used as a jail, a cemetary, a fortess, and
finally as a quarry for building materials. Most of this used to be
covered in marble.