Colosseum
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- 1Outer Facade
An imposing four-storey structure built in travertine, featuring 80 numbered arcades and displaying the Doric, Ionic and Corinthian architectural orders.
- 3Cavea
The marble seating tiers divided into five sections according to social class, from the senatorial podium to the maenianum summum reserved for women.
- 4Cross of the Colosseum
Cross honouring the martyrs, re-erected in 1926 on the north side of the arena
- 7Arena
The central elliptical space where gladiatorial combats took place, covered with sand to absorb blood and equipped with trapdoors and lifting mechanisms.
- 9Hypogeum
An extensive underground network of tunnels and chambers that housed gladiators, condemned prisoners, and wild animals. The complex featured 80 lifting mechanisms to hoist them up to the arena above.
- 11Wall Painting of Jerusalem
17th-century mural of Jerusalem at the Porta Triumphalis, from when the Colosseum was consecrated to the martyrs
- 12Museum of the Colosseum
Second-level museum with finds, mosaics and graffiti telling the Colosseum's story
