To them it was known as the "Amphitheatrum Flavium", which is Latin for "Flavian Amphitheater". They also gave it the nickname "Colosseum" because of the colossal statue of the emperor Nero which...
The Colosseum was called the Flavian amphitheatre because it was the vision of Emperor Vespasian, first Emperor of the Flavian dynasty. It was the first stadium that was covered. They could pull a...
Vatican CityOmg, Vatican city was born only at the end of the 1800 when the Italians break into Porta Pia and confined the Pope in an area that nowaddays it is called Vatican city. The colosseum was...