Inside The Colosseum Of Rome - Underground Tour & Gladiator Arena Entrance / Roman Forum Walk Thru
The Colosseum In Rome 2025
Transcript
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Today's adventure begins
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as the recording of this Tuesday,
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December 2nd, 2025.
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I am finally
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heading into the coliseum.
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booked a tour today which not only
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includes the coliseum floor
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but also an underground section guided
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tour. Part of the reason I came back to
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Rome was because when I was here before
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there were no tours available that had
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the underground section that were not
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sold out. So I wanted to do the full
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experience. So that's what I'm doing
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today. Got my trusty umbrella here just
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in case. So, it looks like the sun is
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starting to peek peek out. I am so
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excited about this. This is probably the
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quintessential attraction here in Rome.
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A magnificent forum, the coliseum, this
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massive amphitheater
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venue.
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Very interested to see what the guy has
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to say.
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Meet up with the group going in shortly.
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Look at that thing.
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Insane.
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Welcome everyone.
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Adam the Woo here. I'm inviting you to
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join me. Let's get inside there.
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Shall you?
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The Coliseum.
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The amazing thing about this, this isn't
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even the extent of the size of the
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original coliseum.
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It's only a portion of what it was. And
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to get into the coliseum mood last night
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when I was in my hotel room, I rewatched
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Gladiator. Haven't seen it in a few
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years. The Russell Crow. So good. Lhee
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Phoenix. Such a good movie.
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>> Just to get into the coliseum gladiator
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mood, if you will.
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>> No.
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So excited.
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>> Supposed to meet up with the group over
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there in just a few minutes.
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>> Big conglomerate of not only my group,
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but other groups. A lot of different
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groups out here, including
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Rolling Solo is that seagull. There's a
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couple other pigeons down here that
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might meet up with that seagull, perform
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their own group to go in the coliseum.
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But I got a couple minutes, so I'm just
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going to bask in the glory of this
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magnificent
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icon of Rome.
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>> This is one of those things that I
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always wanted to go inside of many,
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many, many years ago. I thought, how
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cool would it be to go to Rome, go in
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the coliseum,
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and that was so long ago. And now I'm
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here. It's kind of hard to believe.
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I'm about to get to get a tour and go
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into the underbelly, the nether regions
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of this thing.
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A lot of people lost their lives in
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there.
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>> All for sport.
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>> That is a healthy seagull. That is a big
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You could be a gladiator to be honest.
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All right, I just checked in, got my
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little earbud, met up with the guide,
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and also got the ticket that's going to
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get me in access. What is included?
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Coliseum, Rome, Foreman, Roman Forum,
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Palatine Hill, Imperial Fora, first
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level, second level, underground, and
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the arena. exhibitions, museums, and
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super sites. All of this is included.
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Plus, I have a guide that's going to
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give me a little information. And I also
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have this mechanism and an earbud here.
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>> So, I will repeat my name. My name is
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No other names. Okay. just the important
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things
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is related with the history with the
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empire of Rome because because it's long
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time so we are going to talk before
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Christ
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and after Christ so and then we are in
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Rome Rome we can't skip the cross so we
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are going to see even another cross
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inside the pagan place pagan you know
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What does it mean
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myth mythology very old old style of
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religion is leaded even age was a king
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okay selling king they start to conquest
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land they start to rubbish woman to make
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population to make people okay and they
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start even to fight conquest land they
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want to be big rich I mean we talk about
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about a modern civilization.
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>> A year after the excavation was
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everything clean, everything have a life
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again. Something unbelievable. I mean, I
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saw the picture. Then Benito Mussolini
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destroyed again
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from Square
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brick
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and quart. All this tough stone was a
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merlon
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against marble. Okay. So the disposition
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it's mean they took the marrow to me
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down and the marble to reuse to do
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something else. Okay. So we have this
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skeleton even in all around that you see
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Greek was covered with marble with
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amazing material
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>> all over the empire
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was even big was I mean this part when
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you go to try fountains tiny steps
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vania square nona square they say oh my
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god this is amazing this is unbelievable
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this is old. No,
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is new. There is the new the modernist
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city built on top that you can see very
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clear. We are in a a big hole and
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everything it's builded on the top. Can
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you realize this? So that's why we
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called lasagna city and that's why we
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say that the 80% is completely perfect.
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The way the Romans build the road in all
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empire. Okay. But this is the same road
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that we have even but this is have a
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name. Okay. This is called sacred road.
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Sacred as a sacred Roman empire as a
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sacred fire. Okay. Why sacred?
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because they were I mean very
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I mean very strong. So they conquest a
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lot of land but they conquest land and
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they come back to Rome was made in the
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sacra because they so par was called
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and now is a standing ovation. Okay and
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on something as an arch a war against
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barbarian. Now I want to show you how
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was the Roman forum to the beginning.
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Now I mean let's try to imagine that we
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are behind the arch. Okay. So the
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prospective is like this continued with
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the the chariot but then behind they
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build it the capital hill. Capital hill
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is the government is the museum of the
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Roman forum. this amazing area that you
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can see all all uh statue about the
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Roman forum everything been discovered
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during this caves is amazing museum and
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you can go even aftering aqueduct they
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they can clean they could drink a good
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water they used to have restroom they
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used to have finger food all over
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souvenir this is was a shopping area who
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comes in Rome used to take the souvenirs
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to come back and take something to the
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other part in the Roman for was the
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newspaper. I mean everything was a
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modern modern civilization. But why we
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still have this temple? This temple is
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141 after Christ. Okay. Remember during
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the pagan empire the emperor Nero start
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the persecution of Christians.
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So many Christians be killed during the
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empire. They left Rome because they be
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killed.
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When was the fall? They start to came
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out the fall. I mean the civil war about
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religion took 150 years. They erected
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the last erect the last column that is
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over there. So the that the pantheon is
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the only
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the only temple made with the roof in
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concrete in the world. I mean after even
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three earthquake and the age is
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perfectly dead and today is a Catholic
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church is something amazing if you have
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a chance to go even outside
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even outside the green one over there
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the grenades I mean the traverino
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look this one this is amazing something
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unbelievable I mean
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I told you look the the map they they
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looking for the amazing amazing cory to
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find the amazing material. Look that
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columns with a pink light colors is a
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natural colors. This is a multi colors,
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but it's something unbelievable.
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And I just I I don't know how much I I
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want to pay just to come back here 3,500
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years ago and see how beautiful I was. I
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think it was.
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>> So, okay. Nobody even today with
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internet, nobody couldn't make the
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concrete of the roof of the pan.
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Now
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this is was basilica is basilica Julia
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was started to build it by Julio
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Basilica.
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Why they build that a basil
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not basil.
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Okay basil in the weather the weather
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changed. So was a big area. The weather
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change it and it's not
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it's not
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roof nothing. So they inventing amazing
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structure.
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This is one but remember is still
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working even today.
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>> So in five years is going to be the
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birthday 3,000 years. I'm going to do a
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little
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>> first sewers in the world were in Rome.
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She said
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>> the seers that mean they understood that
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they
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behind the not just to the top.
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to
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to answer up this amazing amazing area
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just was the the temple of a full of
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marble. You can see the holes. Then the
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palace of the emperor. Remember the the
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palentine in Latin it mean palace become
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palace of the emperor after
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>> the incredible thing about this is the
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fact that this was layers underneath the
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ground all this was buried for many
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years until archaeologists found it Rome
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as she said is the city like a city like
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a lasagna different layers
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very fascinating all this was buried for
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so long and built on top This is the
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original sections of Rome.
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So fascinating.
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>> No, nobody
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3,000 years ago.
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Okay.
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Nobody can make the same formula in the
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now
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of
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this is missing because because is
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inside the Roman forum storage of of
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piece of of stone. Now please you can
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touch
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the for example a piece one piece of
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this marble. Okay you can go to the home
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depot and choose a piece of marble and
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you take the marble and you look try to
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move try to see and move this marble.
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>> Oh my god.
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>> Try and think about the colors. Can't
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move it.
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>> Try this just one piece.
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Yes. Heavy.
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>> Look at the granito. This amazing
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material. The granite. This is a real
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granite. The granito today is is fake in
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compar. I mean
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this is a latrine the bathroom
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back in the day.
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the commode, urinal, latrine, toilet,
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etc.
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>> Now, this is making
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when we done with the tour, I wait for
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everybody in my house over there and we
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open a champagne.
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A lot of space there just walk along. A
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lot of space.
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>> Now
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we walked up a very heavy incline
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kind of overlooking the original level
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of the forum of Rome.
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go in the front
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now.
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You can see amazing temple. Okay, you
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see the temple we saw before. Another
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temple. Temple of Romeo. Can you see the
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door? The green bronze door. This is or
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this is original door for underrated
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price
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was amazing and full of marble. Okay.
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But remember the disposition.
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But I want to share with you some
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peculiar details. Okay. In Rome you see
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many church all over. Don't don't be
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afraid. All over you see church and you
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see
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the pagan temple reproposing a church.
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The pagan temple with a cross
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reproposing a Catholic church but the
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cross in the top of the dome. And we saw
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the dome over there in a in a Catholic
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church. So the dome dome dome.
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Who inventing the dome? The Christians
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or the pagan
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>> pagan the pagan the Adrien Adrien
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inventing the dome. Okay. So all around
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the world when you see dome was an
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invention of Adrian the emperor that was
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the most amazing architecture that
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restored the pantheon.
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>> Interesting.
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>> Now under can you see everybody under
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you see statue. Can you see this the
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white statue?
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Those are the only people can live
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inside the Roman forum. The vestal
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virgin. The rest virgin. You can see the
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picture here behind
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the vestal virgin. This was the house
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was living caster. Okay. They were very
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important in the sorcery uh after the
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the emperor because because they must
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look a fire the sacred fire for 1,000
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years inside the remain of the temple.
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Can you see the remain the the round
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one?
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Yes. So the smoke goes out from the
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ceiling and everybody remember that
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everything was lower.
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was lower and everybody can see the
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smoke. The smoke was very important
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because was a sacred fire.
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No view, no tour.
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I mean, I can I can choose to explain to
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you the things with the view.
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Now, you can see the
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>> Oh, yeah. There it is over there.
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>> You can see the Maxensium, the Basilica
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of Maxensium that Michelangelo came to
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study even the architecture. Okay, look
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the arcade. This is was even double but
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was a strong earthquake in the 1349.
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So, The villa the max basilica first has
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the colosum we have colosum so 40% of
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colosum f during the earthquake now you
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can see even the basilica of Santa
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Francesca roana be built installed
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inside a temple the temple of
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inside we have this first basilica be
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built at the at the end of the 700 after
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Christ but been restored by Bernini.
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So something unbelievable inside. And
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outside we see the facade of a temple.
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you can see this divine trees. Do you
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like the pesto?
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>> Yes.
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>> Comes from umbrella trees. They been
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installed by Romans. the p the finals
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comes from
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takes out the the finals with basil.
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>> Okay. In 64 AD, so 64 years after
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Christ,
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>> Nero took over and that was when the
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great fire of Rome happened.
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And if I'm hearing her correctly, Nero
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built a big water effect lake over
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there. And then after that is when the
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coliseum was built. I think I heard that
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correctly.
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>> 64 AD around. And just to recclarify, I
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asked the guy to confirm. She said in 72
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AD is when they broke ground start
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building the coliseum. So a few years
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after the fire and then it took 8 years
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to complete and in 80 AD is when it was
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finished and the earthquake destroyed
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twothirds of it, more than half of it.
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So it's only only a little less than
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half standing after the great earthquake
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from back then. with the bigger the
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chariot and the emperor with the wings.
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Remember
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>> Titus
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the same wings that you see on the top
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of the Victoria
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the wings is the symbol of the triumph
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related with the divinity Niki Niki in
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Greek.
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during the middle age and remember after
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the fall of the pagan empire the colosum
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became a worthy of material a fortress a
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self-sufficient little town for homeless
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criminal who doesn't have house goes
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inside the colum
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now I speak to the water
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is it called the big nose.
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I
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>> think my favorite thing about this tour
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is the difference between America and
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Italy. My Italy tour guide is smoking a
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cigarette
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kind of adds to the ambiance. of the
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freedom, peace, no more blood for
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religion, but it's remain just a simple
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but I want to give you a gossip about
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this arch.
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>> This is was even a military prestige for
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the old conquest. They used to have all
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bronze shield but we don't have nothing
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left. Remember we are going to visit the
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skeletons. Now
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what happened today?
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that at the fall of the empire the
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temple been saved by Christians because
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they want to pray inside but nobody
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saved the colosum because was was a
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bloody contest and it didn't that
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doesn't match anything with the
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Christians religion. So they want to
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remove they don't want the colosum till
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the pope the pope put a cross he saved
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the colosum in memory of the original
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name amphitum flavian this is the
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original name double the flavia in
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memory of the victims and he proposed
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that the colosum with the cross as a
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church so nobody Nobody can touch it
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anymore.
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Now he rebuilded this part in brick to
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save the original facade because
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because you can see very clear that is
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the interior two lines felt. Now
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you know the original name,
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but you should ask me something.
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Why colosum? If you don't ask me, I will
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tell you.
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>> Why was it called the coliseum?
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>> Oh, thank you.
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Okay, remember come
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Ah, a statue
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>> colosso
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may
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>> Adrian made this temple. The coloss of
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Nero was there and 70
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more than
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>> that's where the colosso sculpture was.
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The big statue
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was right there.
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>> That's where it got its name. Those are
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Latin A number
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>> the beginning of the ticket system.
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>> Number why.
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>> You see the ticket. You see the
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>> why carvings
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>> on the number up there. The Roman
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numerals.
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Do you know what's mean?
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Because I didn't know before. I have
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that.
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Do you know? Okay. Is the metal inside
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the stone? I mean between one stone and
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another one they put a metal as a clip
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to keep together the the the structure.
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Okay. But remember that wasn't visible
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was inside inside the stone because
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everything was visible because because
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remember When we go to see the seating
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is nothing left.
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The underground is more preserved
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because was buried. Okay. Now
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many many columns was to the top was the
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last floor. Okay. Then
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in the coliseum
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>> the day in the coliseum.
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There's the original coliseum floor
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there. And then the underbelly of it,
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which we're going to be going down into
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shortly.
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There's no more seats in here. The seats
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have been removed, but you can see how
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it kind of stairstepped up.
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to find the the deep foundation to do
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even
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the narcissist was the box dedicated to
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the
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>> the gladiator entrance through here. So
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it's continue the battle after
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a gladiator.
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Now you see a lot of replica of an
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after the funeral and they offer the
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freedom they fight till the death for
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twice a year or five years average. This
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is the beginning but we never assume
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everything changes. Why? Now we can see
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many potatoes come from all over the
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empire. Not one potato.
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Everyone can go to the death. Okay. this
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one from the school
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underground.
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>> So, this is part of one of the seats.
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>> You can see some carving graffiti on
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there of the battle that's taking place.
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Okay. In fourth
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was the sewers. Okay. With the water.
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But before was even the se
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for animals and and people. The rest was
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stuck. Everything stuck. And and after
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the excavation, the superan
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archaeologist to work for many years to
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take out everything and
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re uh
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and restore everything. So now today
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works perfectly as as 20,000 years ago.
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Now,
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Okay, this picture we saw before. No,
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the sand animals. Okay, trees, they
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recreate a scenery. A scenery the same
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that we do today in a theater in a live
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show. The curtains and the live show.
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The scenery.
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>> Okay. How send
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full of corridors
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in wool and tough stone
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in the middle in the middle of the
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>> animal cages
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one by one.
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>> Wow.
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That was where the animal cages were and
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there were trap door and pulleys all up
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here to put the animals up to the arena
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floor.
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>> this is incredible.
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Hold
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They have recreated the trap door and
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pulley system.
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What that would have looked like. This
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is original obviously, but this is a
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recreation here to hoist the animals up.
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She was saying the gladiators go up a
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ramp to the top, not through this.
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The animals jump inside the trap door,
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but with the time they put a lot of trap
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door even for different species. So they
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can trap door in the middle of the
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corridors. Okay.
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as that one that I showed you before and
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another one that I'm going to show you
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You can see they change it bigger bigger
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because animals go.
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>> There's the center
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center point here of the coliseum.
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Just think about how much stuff happened
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right there on the ground floor. I mean,
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right there in the middle
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is all original. Okay. So, remember that
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was called the main platform. There is a
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platform to create the scenery. So tun
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covers and everything and use the
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platform to to clean the sand to clean
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the sand by the fl. Okay.
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She's also saying how the smell was like
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unbearable. You had 70,000 people in
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here.
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>> And then you got all the excrement of
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the animals down below. And they had
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like their version of like perfume
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that would try to like combat the odor.
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Wine the emperor with the wine the
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money. This isium
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pes
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chances food and fun. This is was the
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propaganda of the empire of Rome for
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almost 1,000 years. Then you can see the
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souvenir
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was full of people in one game and
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another one. The coliseum was open twice
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a year for 20 days max.
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Then the last showcase.
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like a little museum with pieces from
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the inside of the coliseum. More of the
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little carvings that were on the seats.
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Graffiti, if you will all through here,
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that were carved in.
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Little etchings.
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Like, look at this. Look at this here.
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>> Fighting the animals. The animals coming
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out to the gladiator
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>> and the animals fighting each other. I
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think that was the the main stay was a
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lot of the animals fighting each other.
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This is showing the trapoor system here.
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Scale model of the trapoor system for
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the animals to just kind of pop up and
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surprise everyone. Not knowing what
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animal is going to come up onto the onto
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the coliseum floor.
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Maybe
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over there.
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that would go down and then the animals
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would just pop up out of there.
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Yeah, if these walls could talk, it will
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definitely
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be something.
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Okay. And remember
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they used to have even a lot of reere
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to control the games and and the sec and
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the emperor
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the secure the emperor with with the
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scepter give the freedom and the gold.
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That's why the women sitting to the top
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because they could distract the gains of
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the river. They were crazy about
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and
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the amazing
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things is is the the oval shape. Okay,
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this oval
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is not round. It's a project. I made a
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project for this oval shape.
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This oval to to distribute it to the
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weight.
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to all the more people.
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>> Okay.
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>> So,
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>> that's where the emperor sat, right
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there. And there was escape tunnels if
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he needed to get out. You think about
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these very close seats probably for the
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elite or rich
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would be right here kind of
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so close to the action right here on the
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I mean, just such the best view of
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everything happening.
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>> Yeah, it's amazing to think that that's
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what it looked like beforehand cut in
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half. Being able to see what it looked
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like with the seats
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and all the pillars there, the
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sculptures of all the Romans.
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one of the original old staircases
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that would take you farther up
44:05
to the upper steps.
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And it's not common to be able to go
44:53
into the underground. That was again
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that's the reason I didn't originally
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see the coliseum when I was in Rome
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about a week ago
45:02
is because the underground tours were
45:04
all sold out those days. And you can see
45:07
there is no one else down there. So, I
45:08
think all the underground tours for the
45:10
day are completed. Everyone is either on
45:12
ground level, floor level, and the basic
45:15
tour. So, pretty grateful to be able to
45:18
to get to the underground and see all
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that stuff. That was so cool.
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>> Another older staircase.
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You can see where the seats, the angle
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of the seats used to be.
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There's the prestigious seats over
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there. I was shown earlier from the
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shorter level.
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Again, it looks considerably different
46:04
without with all the seats removed, but
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you really do get the idea and the vibe
46:09
of this place by standing here. This is
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just something
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absolutely magnificent.
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Just the amount of history in here.
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All right. Went through the gift shop
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and got myself a magnet and a couple
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really cool pins.
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Got the I got the Roman helmet there and
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coliseum p
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some souvenirs.
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I'm going to make it on
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People
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were throwing coins
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>> down into the
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nether regions
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You can see the
47:49
support pillars there for the roof of
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the bottom which is in fact ground level
47:56
of the coliseum.
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And that's going to do it for today
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from Rome and the world famous coliseum.
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Amazing.
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So glad I got back to do that tour.
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>> Thanks for watching. I'll see you in the
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next video. The vlog is over.