When you exit Colosseo metro station and look up, your first thought is—it's real. Not a smaller copy, not a reconstruction, but the actual amphitheater where two thousand years ago fifty thousand Romans watched gladiators kill each other. The Colosseum stands in the middle of a modern city like a portal to an era when Rome was the center of the world and death was entertainment.

Scale Beyond Imagination

You know the numbers beforehand: 189 meters long, 156 wide, 48 high. But until you stand beside it, they mean nothing. The Colosseum is a four-story building the size of a football stadium, ...