Friday,
May 22 and Saturday, May 23
Today
we took a trip to Rome a city that is very modernized compared to Florence and
Siena from the cities we have visited so far. Rome is the home some very
significant monuments like the Coliseum where many gladiator battles took place
and Vatican City the home for Basilica S.Pietro, Giardini del Vaticano and
Musei Vaticani. I had always been a dream of mine to visit these
significant places. My family is Catholic and every year in the month of
December we watched a film that they show each year on Virgin Mary or as we
know here in my culture as La Virgen de Guadalupe. In Tv each year I watch many people from all
over the world attend the Vatican to thank and pray on this significant day
where it was known for Juan Diego to encountered Virgin Mary twice in Mexico
City. I see people crawling on their knees all the way until they get inside of
the Basilica. Without the tour to the Vatican I feel like I would continue to
live without a lot of history being unrevealed. I would have never known that Michelangel
painted the Sistine Chapel and that he had completed it in a total of seven
years.When we got to
the coliseum I was expecting it to be much bigger and I never imagine it would
be designed the way it was based on the small information I knew from the
gladiator battles. I was expecting more of a flat surface and a long entrance
from where the gladiators would come in with their horses. Also seeing the
amount of cell for the prisoners was something that came to my attention. I was
amazed of how they were designed and how they would let the lions in. Based on how many people were present I could
say for myself that the Vatican and the Coliseum could be Rome’s most popular
tourist attractions.
I could
say that if I wouldn’t of visited this amazing site I would of never learned
all I did while being inside the Coliseum. Reading all the informational fact
help me obtain more knowledge of what had always been the cite I had dream to
visit. It was very interesting to know that it is thought that over
500,000 people lost their lives and over a million wild animals were killed
throughout the duration of the Coliseum hosted people vs. beast games. Many
also may wonder why the Coliseum might be missing a large part and that is due
to many natural disasters that devastated the structure of the Coliseum, but it
was the earthquakes of 847 AD and 1231 AD that caused most of the damage you
see today. Lastly I had always know this cite as the Roman Coliseum and apparently
it had another original name and that was Flavian Amphitheater which was named
after the Flavian Dynasty of Emperors.
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