Italian version  La toolbar del Colosseo "As long as the
Coliseum, there will Rome when the Colosseum falls, Rome will
also fall, but when Rome falls, the world will fall" The
Colosseum Called by the Romans "Anphitheatrum Flavlum", was
built by Emperor Vespasian in 72 AD about, and inaugurated by
his son Titus in 80 AD The construction took place in the area
occupied by the huge palace of Nero's Domus Aurea, built after
the great fire of Rome in 64, which was supposed to be a valley
surrounded by the hills of Velia, Palatine, Celio, Opium, and
Fagutale and was traversed by a stream that ran in the direction
of the Tiber along a path that roughly follows the actual street
of San Gregorio. The presence of the pond was abundantly
exploited to save on foundations made ??of travertine pillars
resting on a ring of concrete continuous, interrupted only by a
few culverts for the flow of groundwater that would otherwise
have flooded the entire area. Nearby there was a colossal statue
of Nero, from which legend has it