Google Sightseeing takes you on tour of the world as seen from satellite, using the free Google Earth program, or Google Maps in your web browser. Each weekday your guides James and Alex present new weird and wonderful sights as suggested by readers.
The Colosseum (or Coliseum) was built in 72 AD and is 160 ft high with 80 entrances. It held more than 50,000 spectators and was actively used for gladiator fights for 400 years.
The Colosseum obviously featured in Ridley Scott’s Gladiator, although was digitally recreated to its former glory.
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For all those interested, to the left of the colosseum is the Roman forums which are pretty much in ruins. However they still look cool if you see them in person. As well, about a screen over is the captial with that plaza designed by Michelangelo.
That empty field to the south was the pathenon which is basically destroyed and is just a big empty field.
Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
Is the Vatican.
“That empty field to the south was the pathenon which is basically destroyed and is just a big empty field.”
Circus Maximus
Thank you. I realized that I was wrong after I posted.
nearby is the plaza in front of Placemark: sait peter’s cathedral / Google Earth in vatican city
er, saint peter’s, that is.
map of vatican city is here
I just wanted to mention that the Colosseum is featured in one of the best films ever made, *Hudson Hawk*.
Panorama of Coloseum
here some other worth seeing places in Rome
Placemark: Pantheon, a temple built in 27 BC to all Roman gods, now a Christian church. It is the only building from the Greco-Roman world which is completely intact. / Google Earth
To square to the west is Piaza Navona and more to the east is the famousPlacemark: Trevi Fountain / Google Earth. Throwing one coin in will ensure that the thrower will return to Rome.