It's so historic and beautiful. I honestly can't believe I went inside. I had a private tour and my tour guide, Leonardo. He mentioned that the Colosseum had over 500,000 deaths of people and a million of animals. How sad. :( Its also falling apart due to weather conditions and erosion. There have also been stories of robbers taking pieces of the amphitheatre.
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| Colosseum, at night. |
Leonardo and I were talking about how it would feel if you were a gladiator. We imaged that it would a slow, painful death if you lost. And if you won, you would probably be missing an arm or something. Then you'll probably end up dying too from blood lost.
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| The Colosseum with modern day people. While I was at the Colosseum I was thinking that I should go see some haunted places! I would love to do that!! Hopefully Leonardo will come with me. When I asked he said he wasn't sure. He doesn't like spooky places. That's fine. I won't force him. But he was nice enough to tell me all the haunted places. I can't wait!!! Leonardo was telling about the island, Poveglia, right off of Italy. It was one of the most haunted places of Italy!! The island used to be a place for war between Venice and Genoa. Theres actually ditch in the middle of the island with burnt human ashes! And the ditch is 15ft deep!!! This happened while the Black Death disease was going on also. They would take the people who are infected and still alive and throw them in the ditch with other rotting bodies. Even if you were a child or a baby, you are left there to die. The island is off limits to tourist and pretty much everybody! There are guards there, guarding the island. People have attempted to go to the island but the guards told them to leave immediately and to never return. So my cousin called me to tell me about the origin for the song, "Ring Around The Rosy." It turns out that during the the Black Plague, children would sing this song. But if you listen to the lyrics you'll see that this is a harsh song for little kids. Ring around the rosy The Black Plague would give you these bumps on your skin and it would have a ring around it. Pocket full of posey They would carry around roses to cover up the smells of dying people Ashes Ashes People would burn the bodies of dead people who had the disease. Once the body is burned it because ash. We all fall down You die.    |
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| Old Dr.'s Mask |
Sources:
http://www.forensicgenealogy.info/images/mystery_place_Poveglia_2012.jpg
http://labitacoradelmiedo.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/poveglia-ayer.jpg?w=503&h=319
http://www.scaryplace.com/ringaround.html
