The Colosseum's grandstand with three layers of concrete made of cylindrical arches, each layer of 80 arches, forming three circles of different heights of the circular coupon corridor (that is, the corridor supported by the arch coupons), and the uppermost layer of the 50-meter-high solid wall. The grandstand steps back level by level to form a stepped slope. The 80 arches on each level form 80 openings, and the top two levels have 80 window openings, so that spectators enter the arena according to the number of their seats, first find out which bottom arch they should enter from, and then follow the stairs to find their own area, and finally find their own seats. The entire Colosseum can accommodate up to 90,000 people, but because of the entry design is thoughtful and will not be congested and chaotic, this entry design even today's large stadiums are still used.
Hidden underneath the Colosseum's performance area were many holes and pipes where props and animals could be stored, as well as gladiators, who would be lifted to the ground at the start of the show. The Colosseum could even use aqueducts to divert water. This was done at the Colosseum in 248 AD, when water was brought into the performance area to create a lake for a naval battle to celebrate the 1000th year of Rome.
The spectacular Colosseum in the center of Rome was built to please the triumphant soldiers and generals of ancient Rome and to celebrate the great Roman Empire. The architectural design of the Colosseum does not lag behind modern views of aesthetics and, in fact, today, some 2,000 years later, every modern major stadium is branded, to a greater or lesser extent, with some version of the design of the ancient Roman Colosseum. Today, through the medium of movies and history books, we have a deeper sense of the brutal fights and battles that took place here between man and beast, and all this just to bring some primitive and barbaric *** to the spectators who watched from the wall.
The Colosseum is an exemplary masterpiece and marvel in the history of architecture, famous for its immensity, majesty and grandeur. Although only half of the skeleton, but its majestic spirit, majestic momentum still exists. Colosseum plan is oval, covering an area of about 20,000 square meters, the outer wall is 57 meters high, equivalent to the height of a modern 19-story building. The building is a 4-storey structure, the outside of the whole by the marble package, the following three floors were 80 arches, the columns are very characteristic, in accordance with the Doric, Ionian and Corinthian standard order, the fourth floor is decorated with small windows and pilasters. In the middle of the arena is the gladiator's platform, 86 meters long and 63 meters wide, still oval in shape, as big as a soccer field. Underneath was a cellar where the beasts and gladiators were kept. The grandstands around the arena were divided into 3 zones. The bottom of the first district is the emperor and the seat of the nobility, the second layer of the Roman high class citizens seat, the third layer of the general civilian seat, and then up is the big balcony, the general audience can only stand here to watch the show. Field stands *** can accommodate more than 50,000 people, the ground floor has 80 entrances and exits, can ensure that in 15 minutes to 30 minutes to the field of 50,000 spectators all evacuated from the field. The architect of the Colosseum is still unknown. It has been suggested that it was probably Rabilio, the architect who later built the Palazzo Domusiano, but this has not been verified.
When the Colosseum was completed in 80 AD, it was celebrated for 100 days. Ancient Rome Colosseum is located in the capital of Italy, Rome, the southeast of the city center of Piazza Venezia, is the symbol of the ancient Roman Empire and the city of Rome, is the most outstanding and famous representative of the Roman monuments, is now one of the world's eight great attractions. The Colosseum is also known as the Colosseum, and some people call it an open-air amphitheater. Called it the Colosseum, because it was once the ancient Roman gladiators and beasts fighting, killing to win the emperor, princes, nobles a smile place. It is called the Colosseum because there were games, competitions, songs, dances and military parades in the Colosseum. The full name of the Colosseum is "Colosseo". "Colosseo" is an Italian word meaning "tall" and "huge". It was the imperial garden of Nero, the tyrant of the Roman Empire, and the Colosseum was built in the middle of a small lake. Because of the 120-foot-high gilded bronze statue of Nero on the edge of the lake, the Romans called it the Giant Statue of Gold, and the Colosseum was named "Colosseum" for that reason. The gardens, lawns and the lake are long gone, but we can still find and recognize some historical relics from the surrounding lush grass, rows of green trees and low-lying terrain. From the point of view of the building time, the Colosseum has a long history, it is Europe is also the world's oldest, the most huge set of great colosseum, arena stored to this day. The Colosseum was built in ancient Rome during the Flavian dynasty.
In 72 A.D., Emperor Vepa Hsiang forced 80,000 Jewish prisoners to build it to celebrate the victory of the conquest of Jerusalem, and it was unveiled by his son Titus. Inaugurated in 80 A.D., the project took eight years. It was restored in the 3rd and 5th centuries AD. During the Renaissance, there was a great deal of construction in Rome, and very many of the stones from the Colosseum were dug up to build palaces and churches. Since then it has been restored many times so that this ancient and majestic building has survived to this day. The Colosseum has a history of nearly 2,000 years from its inception to the present day. When the Colosseum project was completed in 80 AD, a 100-day celebration was held. Ancient Roman rulers organized and drove 5,000 beasts and 3,000 slaves, prisoners of war, criminals on the field "show", fighting, this man and beast, man and man's bloody fight actually lasted 100 days, until the 5,000 beasts and 3,000 lives killed each other, the same death. No wonder some people say, as long as you casually grab a handful of dirt on the gladiatorial stage, put in the hands of a pinch, you can see printed on the palm of the stains of blood. Back then, ancient Rome's famous slave revolt leader Spartacus is a gladiator, he initially led 78 gladiators revolt, very quickly developed to more than 90,000 people, in all parts of Rome insisted on fighting for 2 years. This slave revolt gave a heavy blow to Roman slavery, and Marx once praised Spartacus as "the most brilliant figure in the whole of ancient history".
Located in the Colosseum on the west side of the Triumphal Arch of Constantine, is the largest and most famous of the Roman triumphal arches, but also one of the best stored, the French Triumphal Arch in Paris is to it as a model to design, build. This triumphal arch was built in 315 A.D. to celebrate Constantine the Great's defeat of the tyrant Maxentius at the Milvio Bridge north of the city. The triumphal arch is three-arched, with a height of 21 meters and a width of more than 25 meters, with a high and large central arch and short and small side arches, all framed by Corinthian stone columns, and also decorated with statues and shallow reliefs from previous Roman memorial gates. A circle can be seen on the base of the road near the arch, which is said to have housed a conical fountain called the Meda Sultanate, built in the 1st century AD. The fountain, which still exists today but has long since dried up, was located in the center of today's Rome, Italy, and was the largest circular gladiatorial arena of the Roman period, built between 72 and 82 AD, of which only the remains remain.