Our next destination is Rome. The plane landed at 9 p.m. and then we took Leonardo Express train from Fiumicino Aeroporto to Roma Termini station. We arrived at Roma Termini station around 10 p.m. and we dragged our luggage to the hotel. We stayed at Nord Nuova Roma Hotel near the station. When we arrived, the receptionist welcomed us and mentioned my traveling partner's name with Italian accent, which made me realized that we've arrived in Italy. Oh I just love the Italian accent, it feels like they put their emotion in the way they saying every words, so fascinating.
The next morning, we took Metro from Roma Terimini station to Colosseum station. We directly went to the ticket office and buy the entrance ticket.
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| Ticket to Colosseum |
People already lined up to enter the Colosseum, but the queue not really long, around 15 minutes we're already inside the Colosseum. At first we didn't intend to take a guided tour, so we're just walking around aimlessly. But since Colosseum looks more than meets the eye, so we decided to buy the English-spoken guided tour. There's a specific place at the aisle where we met some peoples who were waiting for the tour started just like us. We waited until our guide came the she gave us the audio-set so we still can hear what she said even if we were left behind.
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| The aisle after entering the entrance gate |
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| Our tour guide |
From the tour, I found out that the Colosseum has been used for many purposes during its life time. From the symbol of imperial power until the place where people build house inside Colosseum (seriously!). I also found out that when Colosseum was used as the battle ground, it was decorated into various themed, from forest themed to Sea theme (they flood the stage with waters and put ships on it). It's so genius and make me wondered how the people in the past with limited technology already made such epic themed battles.
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| The empty Colosseum stage |
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| the map |
Unfortunately all we can see now is its ruin, especially due to the earthquakes in the past and some of the stones were used to build other buildings (seriously?!).
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| this was the place where the gladiators were waiting before joining the battle |
Done cherishing the beauty of Colosseum, we continue to the ruin next to Colosseum, it was Roman Forum. Even though with bare eyes all you can see is just ruins, but somehow the atmosphere of old time glory still felt and they just look so beautiful. I really wonder how people in the pas really used the Roman Forum for their daily activities.
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| Me in front of Colosseum. yes, it is book of Colosseum story in my hand :p |
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| Inside Roman Forum, this place still look like an old city |
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| the ruins as the background |
Many polices patrol around Colosseum, from the one who used the car until the ones who used horses. There's also some army doing their daily patrol (something you had to get used to see in all over European countries lately)
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| Police car |
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| The police patrol using horses |
My favorite look of Colosseum is from this view:
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| this is one of the view of Colosseum like in Spectre movie |
it was one of the scene in James Bond movie, Spectre, which is look a whole lot better in real eyes. Can I say I love Rome now?
XOXO,
The Tourist
