Crazily ornate building.
Looking toward the Vatican.
We ducked inside this church that happened to be on the way. Built starting in 1500AD or so.
Insanely ornate.
Here's Ralph and Jani inside.
Church video
This spot had been discovered accidently while building a foundation. It's from around 400 BC.
You can't sink a well without hitting this stuff around here.
Fake statue street performer.
Our first view of the coliseum.
Remnant decorations.
This thing could house 50,000 people.
Ralph and Jani.
The maximum population of Rome was around a million.
Just a bit more than Tucson. This is what was under the floor at the center of the arena so that they could easily move acts (like, for instance, man-eating lions) into place.
By the year 1000, the lack of support infrastructure and an empire to fund it reduced the population of Rome to just 20,000 for over 500 years.
That's about the population of Moscow, Idaho.
The entire population of the city could have fit into the coliseum and made it look like a Pirates game
The population finally started to recover after the renaissance.
A piece of public art. But WTF?