The Italy Series: Colosseum

Where light posts grow from your head...

How rad a place is the Colosseum?

Super rad.  

Probably one of the more amazing parts of seeing the Colosseum was the opportunity to look into the dark underbelly of the arena--where the gladiators, animals, prisoners and...set designs... were held.  

As you can see, we were plugged into our free and pre-downloaded audio tours on our ipods

(which was the best idea ever).   I highly recommend it for any other budget travelers out there.

The view from the third-floor spectator walkway wasn't shabby, either (guess having the cheap plebeian tickets had its perks)--the Arch of Constantine and Palatine Hill.