Maintained our impressive step count yesterday wandering around the Colosseum and the nearby Palatine Hill. Lots of photo opportunities for the Missus, who is becoming something of an expert on the selfie front. Me not so much.
Struck by the sense of how the ruins of Imperial Rome dominated the European imagination - the most interesting aspect of the Colosseum for me being how the fallen structure was made use of in mediaeval times and after. Perhaps those years served to exorcise the ghosts of those who suffered when it was initially constructed?
Imperial power came at a steep price. Sometimes ruins are worth celebrating in their own right.
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