Colosseum of Rome

The Colosseum was the place where the Romans held their wild beast shows and gladiator fights. They murdered the first Christians in that amphitheatre by dressing them in animal costumes and feeding them to the liones and bears. Didn't you read Qvo Vadis? Anyway, the construction of Colosseum begun under Emperor Vespasian in AD 72, and it managed to seat 80.000 spectators. In the Middle Ages, the amphitheatre turned into a fortress, and later, pitfully, into a quarry for extracting marble, as they started the erection of Palazzo Venezia. Restoration is still on since 1992. Don't dodge the place if you land in Rome!