Roman Forum Guided Tour - Narrated by Official Tour Guide

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the political, religious and economic center of the ancient city of rome let's discover together this incredible archaeological site in front of you the arch of Titus an arch built to celebrate the emperor Titus and the victory he obtained against the city of Jerusalem in the year 70 AD, let's

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this large group and take a look at the internal decoration. In fact, it is a historical memory of what happened at the end of that victory. What is represented inside is the so-called triumph, a procession that emperors could make. when they won great wars, the Emperor is depicted on a chariot with the soldiers in front of him and, on the other side, the soldiers carry the treasures during that triumph, including the menorah that moves to the right, where the Basilica of Saint .

Francesca Romana we will see it from the inside later, just note the incredible bell tower dating back to the 12th century. Let's take this small path to the right side, it will take us to a beautiful view of the Colosseum, moving towards the left. a building with European flags well, that building is the Roman Forum Museum installed within another archaeological area that we are about to see, this area was created by the emperor Hadrian, you have probably heard of him, he is the one who created the wall of Hadrian who divided Scotland. from England Hadrian is the one who restored the Pantheon in the center of the city of Rome and is the one who created what we today call St.

Angel's Castle so we are about to see the Temple of Venus and Rome this temple built by Hadrian was considered one of the largest in Rome look at the incredible columns are on the right side there were many other columns surrounding the building made of gray granite but unfortunately most of them have disappeared this is because during the Middle Ages and during the Renaissance the materials of the buildings of the past used to be taken reused and recycled for the construction of new monuments look how consumed a great view in a great place for your photos during your trip from the terrace where we are now during Easter the Pope has a very famous celebration there the recreation of The Passion of Jesus, that is what we call the Via Crucis and it starts from here towards the right side of the Colosseum, which is the arch of Constantine built in the 4th century AD. to celebrate the first Christian emperor.

Looking back, we can take a look. In the internal decoration of the Temple of Venus and Rome, the temple was made of two APS, one facing the coliseum and another facing the

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. The one facing the forum has been included in the church of Saint Francis Karamaneh, so this is the only one. left, right in front of you were statues inside his APS representing the two goddesses Venus and Rome. Look at the structure of the building, you only see bricks, but you have to imagine that everything used to be colorful and covered in amazing marble, imagining the floors.

The world I had had to be bright and colorful. You will see a lot of holes in the walls and that is due to the metal clamps that were removed when those marble pieces were recycled. Take a look back and enjoy an incredible view of the Colosseum through the ruins. The place where we are now used to be included in the famous house of Nero in the famous Golden House, you have probably heard of Emperor Nero, he is the one who according to tradition burned the city of Rome in the year 64 AD. in the end. From that fire he rebuilt a huge house exactly here the place where the temple is today is the place where the statue of Nero used to be located the famous Colossus of Nero when the temple had to be built The emperor Hadrian moved the statue using 24 elephants and He moved it near the Colosseum the name of the statue was Nero's colossus and that is why we call the Colosseum so the architect of the Temple of Venus and Rome was probably a Polydorus of Damascus the architect argued many times with the Emperor Hadrian you have to know that Emperor Hadrian was also an architect, in fact, he designed his own villa in the city of Tivoli, that's what we call Hadrian's Villa.

Hadrian invented a new type of dome and when the architect Appledore looked at a new type of dome, he called it a calabash. Emperor Hadrian was not so happy so he exiled the architect and then sentenced him to death. Let's go back to the beginning of the forum on the left, in a moment the arch of Titus that we just saw will appear again. Remember that the Roman Forum that we are about to discover today was the political, religious and economic center of the ancient city of Rome. You have damaged this area full of people, everyone used to come to this area to do business, discuss politics or worship their gods. imagine eight a lively place in the center of the city of Rome we are now taking one of the main roads an ancient Roman road the so-called via sacra sacred path this is the path that the Emperor had to take to conclude his triumph remember the celebration that they could have at the end of a victory to celebrate a triumph they had to build an arch they had to go through the arch they had to take the Sacred Path walk it through the Roman Forum and they had to reach the end in front of the temple of Jupiter on the top of the Mount Capitolinus and there they had to make a final sacrifice but that victory could only be achieved if they had killed more than 5000 enemies, if they had killed less there would be no victory or so they said.

They no longer had the right to have the celebration with the procession. They could only make a sacrifice in front of the temple of Jupiter. The name of that celebration was Ovid, and that's where the word ovation comes from. Now we are about to see another magnificent building in front of you is the Basilica. by Maxentius Maxon Souza was an emperor of the 4th century AD. he was a pagan emperor he was defeated by the emperor Constantine remember the first Christian emperor look at this incredible building it is huge try to keep a big roof of red over our heads of main columns names of Magina that divide the internal space of this building and once again let's imagine marble on the floor and marble against the walls this building is called a basilica today when we think of a basilica we think of a religious place think of the basilica of st.

Peter but actually in Roman times a basilica was a court it was a political building that was used to discuss politics to judge people it was used for these political purposes this building was actually used as a secretary with a craftsman it was used to judge sanatorium you will see that this building is located a little away from the main square of the forum and this is because the senator needs a bit of wild privacy, they were charged look at the incredible structure imagine that there are statues located in those niches that you see In Absa Going down we will stop to see the sale of these large domes, the ceiling in fact partly reminds us of the decoration of the Dome of the Pantheon in this Basilica during the summer we have an important event related to literature, so we love to come here when it is good moment and reuse these buildings for modern purposes.

There is a building that now captures our attention. You have a fairly modern building on top of a very peculiar material. That material is what we call hard stone. stone that you would find by visiting the catacombs along the Appian Way in Rome and looking down, that is the original Roman level, yes, because you have to imagine that Rome was built in several layers, the original Roman level is that low, but with time and the century. After century the level went up and up and up and that is why today the modern level is so high going back through the Basilica of Maxentius, the place where we are now exactly is the place where a large statue of Maxentius used to be when it was made the simulated census. defeated and Constantine became Emperor, these Basilicas changed their name, so in some book

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s you can still find both names: Basilica of Maxentius or Basilica of Constantine, while Constantine here found a statue of the previous Emperor the statue was a giant was a colossus his body was colossally large The part of the statue was made of bronze and while he had his hands, arms, legs and feet were made of marble, while Constantine could not leave the statue of the enemy inside , so he simply cut off the head of the statue and replaced it with his own in marble during the Middle Ages the bronze of the body was melted and we lost it but the marble pieces remained and were rediscovered during the excavation of the archaeological area so visiting the museum today on the top of the Capitoline hill you would see the head of Constantine made of marble returning to the main road towards the via sacra we will begin to move to the original area of ​​the forum as we said today we will see many buildings dating from different eras in history Roman and this is because we divide Roman history into three large pages.

According to tradition, the city of Rome was founded in the year 753 BC. on the top of the Palatine Hill by King Rama after Romulus there were six other kings after the era of the kingdom we had republican era ending with the assassination of Julius Caesar Caesar's successor was Octavian Augustus they became the first Roman Emperor starting in this way its final imperial era on the right side you now see a portico data from the 12th century because you have to imagine that the Roman Forum at the end of the Roman Empire was abandoned the level went up and the area was used as a place of pasture and markets looking towards the right side now appears in front of you an incredible temple the temple of Rama meets Brahma loose in this case not the founder of Rome but the son of Maxentius Maxentius had a son who died very young so he decided to celebrate him by having a temple dedicated to him In the forum near its basilica this temple dates back to the 4th century AD. the door and the two beautiful columns next to it are still original the temple is quite well preserved because it was converted in the Middle Ages into a church this is what happened to many of the buildings of the Roman Forum many were simply destroyed to reuse the material of them but many others were reused and became churches becoming churches, they were saved and could no longer be reused in front of you now at one time another incredible building this building is the temple of Antoninus and Faustina it was a temple dedicated to Antony The Emperor and Faustina the wife date from 141 AD.

They look at the incredible podium and the beautiful staircase to reach it, the beautiful columns but if you look behind them you can make out a green door and by looking closely up you can identify the façade. of a church this is because in the 11th century a church was built inside a temple with the shape of the Church you see today dates back to the late 1500s early 1600s exactly as I said many buildings were reused as you can see now we are walking in a flat area this is the original forum the dates are from the 7th century BC you have to imagine everything paved with incredible marble exactly as you see it outdoors turning left we go to see now another incredible building the temple of the Divine Julius the structure you see was actually the basement of the temple dedicated to Julius Caesar in front of you the stones were according to tradition Caesar's body was cremated Caesar was assassinated on the Ides of March on March 15, 44 BC. and as I told you before his death he brought you piu age Julio Caesar is considered a dictator and is loved by all the Romans every year on March fifteenth we come here to the forum and celebrate Caesar the temple was built by Octavius ​​Augustus in the year 29 BC above the place of his cremation so we consider it his tomb now we are in the central square imagine that this area was actually a swamp when the Kings understood that the Palatine Hill where the city of Rome began was no longer enough for a population increasing for a growing city, they moved down the hill and decided to drain this entire area creating Rome's first sewer.

They think the sewer still works today, so at that time the plaza was created and paved, it was in 600 BC. C. To your left is a solitary column that is Foca's column, it is the shiny object erected in the forum in 608 AD. C., it was erected to remember an important event and it is the moment when the pantheon became a church in front of you now another incredible building appears, it is the famous house of the Senate Correa Yulia was the Senate that Julius Caesar began to build but then it was inaugurated by Octavio Augustus in the year 29 BC.

C. the form you see today is the one given to it by the emperor Diocletian in the 3rd century AD. C. after a large fire disrupted the forum. The Post Office was restored in the 1930s and transformed. Imagine yourself in a church in the Middle Ages. the church of st. Hadrian, the main bronze door that used to be in the Senate, is today one of the main doors of the Church of Saint Hadrian. John Lateran in front of you incredible ruins from the Republican era of another important building that we are about to discover, in fact it is the Basilica Emilia another Basilica another court another court of justice this Basilica is interesting because it is the only Republican Basilica left in the forum looks to the left side you see the pieces of the columns that were used to divide the internal poles try to imagine that it was possible to divide this Basilica in a more internal environment thanks to some curtains that could be placed between the columns the shape in fact, remember much to a basilica as we conceive it today, forWhat there is a church to the right of the side wall of the building and now look through the arch and the incredible view you can see the external portico that was added by Octavius ​​Augustus during the imperial era.

Keep in mind that many of the activities that took place in the open-air Roman Forum could be moved inside its Basilica if the weather was not good. In front of you rises the side wall of the temple of Antoninus and Faustina that we just saw. I can see the blocks of stones that the new city has due to those metal glamors, so they were taken and reused, the same for the marble that they used to decorate the entire building. wall returning to the main square we take the sacred path once again and let's now see The other side of the Roman Forum, as we said, all these areas changed completely during the era of the kingdom, but many other buildings were added during the republican era and then during the time when the Roman Empire fell, which was the year 476 AD. according to him Traditionally this whole area was abandoned look at the floor imagine it is paved with beautiful marble and looking to the right you see again the sacred path we are going to take imagine costs huge changes of money imagine a place where people could come this was the central area of ​​Rome moving down, we will now see another important building on the left, the Basilica of Yulia, another basilica, we will see it from the inside in a moment and fortunately today what remains is the basement with the entrance with These are a staircase on its left side and some of the internal columns.

Try to imagine that the building was a two-story building in front of you, one of the seven columns that were placed here in the London forum, on top of those pedestals, the word columns and on top of the columns where there are bronze statues that unfortunately they are no longer in front of you, the final part of the forum appears again on your right now Foca's column and all the way down what you see going up a hill that is the capital line here the yellow building that appears at the end of the forum with the bell tower on top that is the city or Rome has been restored as you see it today in the Renaissance and imagine that it was Michelangelo who gave it to it The final form in front of you, the Magnificent Temple of Saturn, is a temple which was inaugurated in 498 BC.

C., it has a giant shape and look at the location, the walls are very thick. This building was probably the Treasury of Rome. It means that it was used to store all the coins and all the treasures of the entire giant city. Look at the people in comparison to the basement which gives you a scale of the shape of this building in front of you, on the right, you see a building with a triangular roof which is again the Curia Giulia that we already saw the Senate house now I'm going to tell you to show an incredible building that believe it or not in the Middle Ages was transformed into a barbershop remember that this area in the Middle Ages became a place of market pasture and well, even a place of barbershops, the barber decided Set up shop in the central arch of the Arch of Septimius Severus, right in front of you, an arch built to celebrate Emperor Septimius Severus.

We are talking about the 3rd century AD. and it was built to celebrate his victory against the barbarians. Looking at the top you see an inscription with a hole in the middle. There was the bedroom that the barber opened at the top of his shop to make sure. that no one can steal your place during the night in front of you the beautiful columns that decorate the front of the temple of Saturn the temple has been restored many times even in 49 BC we are now taking the main Roman road and as you can see it goes up to in front of you the temple of the spaced titles, it was a temple built in honor of Emperor Vespasian when his son Titus died, the temple was dedicated to both and was completed by Emperor Domitian the second. son of spacing then it is a temple that is talking about the same family the so-called Flavian dynasty which is an important family because it is the family that began and completed the construction of the Colosseum the mission the Emperor who completed the temple is the Emperor who a dirty underground to the Colosseum, as you can see, we continued up the Capitoline Hill.

In the interview a Nader column appears with 12 columns probably dedicated to the most important gods of Roman times, there were probably statues related to those gods and we are located in those initials that you see just behind the colonnade. Look at the incredible view of the Temple of Saturn in front of you now with those beautiful 8 columns on the left and in front of you the Basilica Julia, we will get there in a moment. At the top of the Capitol, more or less where we are now here used to be the temple of Jupiter, so this is the place where the Emperor had to come to conclude his triumph.

On the left side, the building in yellow and gray that is a place for The yellow part of the City Hall, as we said then, the large part is the so-called tabularium, so the building is used as an archive for all the documents in Rome. It was built in the year 78 BC. C. in front of you, the building. in pink the appearance of quite new is a church is the Church of st. José del carpintero ISA that church is important because it was built on the Mama Time prison, the ancient prison of Rome according to the tradition st.

Peter and Paul were imprisoned there before being executed during the Christian persecutions. Anyway we return to contemplate and then magnificently the Roman Forum that extends before our eyes, to the right, the giant basement of the temple of Saturn and now we are approaching the ruins of the Basilica Julia looking in front of you you will see pieces of the temples and of the buildings that were found during the excavation of the area, let's especially focus on these large columns. I want you to look at them and compare. people to them so that you can have a good scale of all these imagined areas by touching them - as this man does you would have felt the granite of the column and now we are about to enter the Basilica Julia a basilica that began to be built by Julius Caesar, but unfortunately he was assassinated, so Octavius ​​Augustus, his successor, completed the basilica according to tradition, the basilica was actually created on top of our previous republican basilica and the republican basilica itself was built on another incredible building.

Skippy Oh's house Skippy Oh is the important Roman soldier in general who defeated Hannibal in the Carthaginian wars again of this basilica we have only a few columns left of the five original names that they used to make the Basilica in front of you you can see three large columns, were part of another incredible temple of the Roman Forum, it was the temple of Castor and Pollux. Castor and pollux are two gods that come from Greek mythology and were later included in Roman mythology according to the tradition they dress the children of Leda. and the Swan this was actually Jupiter in the form of a swan who seduced Leda Leda instead of having children had two hexa and from those eggs came custard Pollux Helen of Troy and Clytemnestra so it is a nice myth and you have probably heard of it Many times the temple was built in the place where the two gods appeared according to Roman tradition.

The temple was inaugurated in 484 BC. The place where we are now is a good place to take a break during your

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of the Roman Forum in front of you, the building with triangular roof is an ancient church of St. Mary's Church, dating back to the 7th century, it was built on some of the buildings related to the imperial residence that goes back to the main square. I'm going to discover more of these amazing areas. Look to the left side, you can still make out the entrance steps of the Basilica Julia and think about these steps that some graffiti was found.

They were called tabula. Lou's Aria. They were board games that the Romans used. to play while we wait here in the forum turning right let's continue in the main Piazza now look at the floor again remember that everything was paved with incredible marble now let's imagine walking through a great Archer that was created by Octavius ​​Augustus because we are about to discover now another amazing building interview is the Temple of Vesta, it was a circular temple on the roof dome but there was a hole in the middle because the temple was created to preserve a sacred fire so that the smoker could come out. through the hole in the upper part of the roof and imagine that the fire always had to burn because it represented the life of the city, there were six vestal virgins, they were priestesses in charge of the fire and they had to spend their lives watching how the fire was made.

Surely it was always burning the Vestal Virgins had the right to live in the Roman Forum so in a moment we are going to discover the house of the Vestal Virgins imagine six of the Vestal Virgins chosen from the most important families in Rome had the right to live here this was its main garden imagine it surrounded by a portico on the left the most important statues of the Vestal Virgins had to spend their life here thirty years of their life watching the fire of the temple if they were caught making some mistakes looking at the fire they were weak and imagined that they had to live in chastity for 30 years if they were caught having a love story having an affair they killed them they couldn't kill them directly so they used to be taken outside the city of Rome they were locked in a cave and they left us some food this way They were not physically killed but put in a position to die.

Imagine this building completely decorated with marble, incredible as always, all lost in time, three swimming pools in the middle of the gardens, and imagine that this Hauser was absolutely self-sufficient, so here in this house the bastard virgins had a bakery, a smooth stone garden and a kitchen at the end of the thirty years that they were free considered that these ladies had many rights and compared to the other ladies of Roman society they had special seats in the places for shows if they met a senator in the middle of the road the senator had to stop to let them go and if they found a person who was sentenced to death they could put a free person in these house some heating systems were found and this makes us think that this house was luxurious because What the best and virgins were very special women in ancient Roman times but we consider that they had a very hard life in the order of the Vestal Virgins.

It ended with the arrival of Christianity and there were no more ladies, they were available to become vestal virgins on the condition of spending 30 years of their life watching a fire in the Roman Forum, so with a rival to Christianity many of these pagan religions the temple of Rama began to disappear in front of you news that we already saw coming here and now you can see just above it through as we said the temple was converted into a Christian building now it is interesting to understand what happened to the Romans Forum at the end of the Roman Empire As we said, the Roman Empire

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ly ends in 476 AD.

There were many causes that led to the end of the Empire, probably the most famous being the arrival of the barbarians when the Roman Empire ended all this. The area ceased to exist, the Roman Forum was completely abandoned, it was no longer the center of the Roman world, so try to imagine that this whole area was completely abandoned and no one was taking care of it. Floods, dust, wind, rain made it possible for soil to be deposited and leveled. began to rise, that is why many buildings were buried at the end of the 19th century with the unification of Italy.

All of these areas began to be rediscovered and excavated. In front of you you have a very peculiar building that has nothing to do with a Roman Forum. The buildings are related to the so-called Tiffany Jionni. The four gardens of Nazar were created in the 1500s and were created by Alexander for Nazar the nephew of Pope Paul. The third gift imagines a complex of terraces, gardens and areas related to their entertainment. family then it was the place for banquets for parties try to imagine that this area was so abandoned that in the fifteen hundred popes could take it let's move forward until we reach another Roman road try to imagine that this area was abandoned after the Renaissance and rediscovered with hard work to end of the seventeenth century beginning of the eighteenth century here we are walking along another Roman road it is the so-called via Nava new road the name was given to distinguish it from the sacred road via sacra built before all the Roman roads were made in exactly this way the black stone is dazzled it is a volcanic stone you have to measure that twenty thousand years ago we had a volcano here so we had many eruptions over the centuries and this stone was common and cheap even in Roman times, so the Romans decided to pave all the roads throughout the empire in this specific way.

These stones, being volcanic, are perfect for stopping fires and, as you can see, there is at least some space between the stones. left that was made to make it possible to drain water during rain or floods the large trees in Roman times were fires and floods so this is the secret of the Romans and their roads remember that all roads lead to Rome let's move forward these great arches following the via nova because in a moment we will be at the foot of the Palatine Hill theplace of the founding of Rome but even the place where the emperors decided to build their palaces was the Emperor Octavian Augustus decided to have his Imperial Palace on the Palatine Hill he did it because he wanted a special connection with Romulus, the founder of Rome, who initiated the creation of the city right at the top of that hill.

Octavian Augustus built his palace, it was small, but the Emperor who came after him wanted his palaces also to be on top of the same place, so the palatine hill at the end of the Roman empire was full of large imperial palaces. . You start to have a beautiful view and as you climb to the top of the palatine hill I promise you that you will have a wonderful view just to give you an idea now we are at the bottom of the palatine hill look these arches were built to support a large palace they had to being right above the terrors that we just saw the palace that was there was the Palace of Tiberius so it was considered the Palace of the successor of the Emperor Octavian Augustus appointed his nephew as first successor Marcellus unfortunately died Octavian Augustus named two other nephews as successors were Lucius and Gyu and they also died, we don't really know what happened, we know that the only one left who could be named Emperor was Tiberius, the son of Octavian's wife.

Augustus Livia, but the son who comes from the first wedding, well, Octavius ​​Augustus appointed Tiberius as successor and that is how Tiberias became the second Roman emperor, let's go up this great ramp, it is a ramp created by the emperor Domitian, remember that the third emperor of the Flavian dynasty created this. ramp in the 1st century AD to have a grand entrance to the imperial residence, so this was the way the Emperor could reach the palatine hill and they could enter his house from here, you will enjoy an amazing view and there are even some panels where you can find the description of what you see.

You can enjoy the view from here and recognize most of the buildings we already saw. See the Town Hall to the end of the arch of Septimius Severus, the temple of Castor and Pollux, the temple of Antoninus and Faustina, right in front of you, the temple of Rama meet the house of the vestal virgins, which is the terrace where it used to be the Palace of Tiberias. If you visit the Palatine Hill, that terrace will be amazing for photographs. I lost my gaze before we moved. All the way back to the left side which is the Palatine Hill, you can see that today at the top we only have trees and gardens, but you have to imagine it full of Haysom Palace, the houses of the Emperor, those policies were unfortunately destroyed during the Middle Ages and during the Renaissance specifically by the polska they were reused as materials during the construction of st.

Peter's Basilica many of the materials were taken from those palaces that is why today on the top of the Palatine Hill we do not have much left according to tradition the city of Rome began on the Palatine Hill Romulus as we said was the first king who had a twin brother called Remus, they decided to build their own Brahman city on the top of the Palatine Hill, now on our right side, Remus on the top of the Aventine Hill, they had an agreement that they could not enter the brother's city, they had to say. in his, Remus did not follow the agreement, he entered the city of Romanus and Romulus killed him, that's why we call the city Rome, so the beginning of everything is established on the 21st day of the apron of 753 BC.

C., we don't. I know why that day, but we celebrate Rome's birthday every year on April 21. Returning to Via Nova, we walk through these arches. These arches were built by the emperor Hadrian to bring the entrance to the imperial palaces closer from the palatine hill. to the commerce of the Roman Forum imagine that along this road there were many shops the so-called tavern always remember that the forum was a commercial area it was a place of markets a place for business all the way ahead now you can clearly distinguish the arch of Titus that we see We saw at the beginning of our word many artists and poets who fell in love with them.

A special place. Think well. Think of Stendhal. They came here to the forum on the Palatine Hill to admire the landscape and wrote about what they did. They could see and the feelings that all these areas could give them an area that spoke of an older civilization that they created so much and then left so much to all of us look at the beautiful trees in front of you we call them umbrella trees they are Mediterranean pines and they grow like this taking from again the road to the right you would continue to the Palatine Hill so one day when you come you can decide to go up all the way and see that part but we return to the left side and we have the arch of Titus in front of us again in the beautiful bell tower of the Church of Santa Francesca Romana just notice how the arch of Titus is so high compared to the level where we are walking on the floor when we are walking The date is from the time of Octavius ​​Augustus and is due to an error during the excavations that took place at the end 19th century and early 20th century, some of the Roman levels were mistakenly destroyed and removed.

You can then follow the prompts here. Towards the exit and moving we can follow this little calf and look at the tree on our left side. This is a laurel tree. The bay leaves on the right are used for the Emperor's crowns during the training site, so you'll see many important reasons during your tour here. In the forum for example in front of you you have an olive tree, they were sacred trees and in the Roman they say the great Pacific of Maxentius in front of you that we are about to leave we are taking the exit on the right side but Don't worry, we have a couple of things to see before finishing our tour.

Be careful with this complicated exit, you just have to push a little hard and we will get out. Let's move to the right side. There's one more thing I'd really like. I would like to show you and it is something that we actually mentioned before, it is the Basilica of Santa Francesca Romana, this church is extremely old, the first time it was built was in the 9th century, it was dedicated to Francesca Romana in 1500 Francesca Romana . It is a Roman street. lived in Rome in the year 1400, the church was restored in the sixteenth century in baroque style and that is what you see today, look at the incredible ceiling, it dates back to the sixteenth century, the church was restored and Bernini was in charge of an important statue that represents the saint for the altar unfortunately the statue has been taken this church is extremely famous and nowadays it is used for weddings let's leave it and go back to the external area of ​​this archaeological site I'm going to take you to the metro station so from From there you will be ready to continue with other incredible adventures in Rome before doing so.

Think about what we just saw, an incredible ancient area of ​​Rome that we can consider the true beginning of a civilization walking along the Roman Road again. see the external part of the Basilica of Maxentius on our left on the right the Church of Santa Francesca Romana but look as you turn in a moment another incredible building will appear in front of your eyes just behind those trees we have the Colosseum the symbol the icon of Rome as we all know the Colosseum is the place that was created for shows and entertainment remember that it is the Flavian dynasty that built it The emperor Vespasian the father began the construction which was later completed by the first son Titus the mission the second son is the one who added the underground before the construction of the Colosseum the shows that the gladiator fights took place in the Roman Forum some elevators were found in the underground of the forum that were used so that the gladiators could appear in the middle of the square to look To your left you see many works in progress and look to the right and those are the columns that are part of the Temple of Venus and Rome, the region that you saw, as you can see, was erased and the works, this is because the city ​​of Rome is trying to create. a new metro line, the works are endless and we don't know when they will end.

Look in front of you, the Colosseum, standing proud after 2,000 years. This is the best part of the building moving around, you will see that there are many the construction disappeared mainly due to the earthquakes, but partly even because it has been reused and recycled, as the rest of the buildings we saw in the Roman Forum we were talking about the statue of Nero, the Colossus of Nero, moved closer. towards the building, look to the right, do you see all those people sitting? That is the place where Nero's Colossus was moved. What happened to that statue? Who has no idea it was bronze?

We probably melted it down and recycled it for something. otherwise look in front of you three lines of arches the original name of the Colosseum was actually Flavian Amphitheater in the name as we already said changed due to the statue of Nero the Roda that we are about to cross is the path of the imperial forums created on the ninth in reason and here we are at the subway station. I hope you enjoyed our tour together and I look forward to seeing you for other amazing adventures, enjoy, right?