Coloseo

On Friday, January 19th, we visited the Coliseum (Coloseo). The subway stop is directly across from it and we walked out and just stared in awe. The area is filled with tourists and merchants selling all sorts of things. We didn't mind hearing and seeing some English, but we weren't conned into spending a bunch of money. That's the nice thing about the location of our campus; we are not in a tourist area, so you can really see how Italians live, not have to pay the high prices of the tourist areas, and practice our Italian. Anyway, we decided to go in, which was definitely worth it. We had a good time walking around and touching the walls n' such. Our minds can't comprehend how old it is. It's marvelous because America is so new and we are here, where everything is a 1000 + years old! We were surprised because the Coliseum was built on the site of a drained lake. Just thinking about how it was constructed boggles the mind. We also learned that on the inaguration day, one animal was slaughtered every ten seconds for the entire day as a sacrafice, which comes to somewhere around 5,000 animals in a day! Not to mention all of the people that died there. We enjoyed this site and then were off to explore...