The COLLOSSEO (Colosseum) — the grandiose amphitheatre erected in Ancient Rome during an epoch Flaviev.
The Collosseo building collapsed: frequent earthquakes, fires, the barbarous relation of people. During an epoch of the Middle Ages it was used as a stone quarry: stone blocks took for constructions of palaces and churches is there was a period of the greatest destructions. Already during antique times the Collosseo was repeatedly restored, reconstructed. Only from the beginning 19 century began to be engaged purposefully in preservation of a monument and to spend archeological excavations.
The Collosseo — construction in the form of an ellipse: length of 188 m, width of 156 m, height of 48,5 m.
Average part of a building, arena (from an armour. "arena" — "sand"), covered with sand and intending for gladiatorial fights, persecution of animals, under the form represented an ellipse (length of 86 m, width 54). From lateral aspect the Collosseo — четырехъярусное a building. External parts of the Collosseo have been built from травертина, internal — from a tufa, a brick, marble, concrete and a tree. External parts of the Collosseo have been built from травертина, internal — from a tufa, a brick, marble, concrete and a tree. The Collosseo — an outstanding monument of architecture of Ancient Rome, the largest amphitheatre of a classical antiquity, a symbol of greatness and power of imperial Rome.