The Coliseum

The first big building that was built on the Coliseum area, was the Domus Aurea, ordered by the emperor Nero and built on 64 a.C., right after the big fire of Rome. This was a royal palace, big and luxurious, where the emperor managed to have not a swimming pool, but an entire lake!
In the exact position where Nero's private lake was, emperor Vespasianus, who wanted to give back to Romans this important space, ordered the great Flavius' Amphiteather, also know as Coliseum or Colosseum. This is today one of the symbols of Rome.

In this zone the following things can be seen: