The largest amphitheatre ever built (AD 70-80); the Full Experience ticket adds the arena floor or the underground passages where animals and scenery were hoisted up.
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Arch of Constantine
AD 315 triumphal arch beside the Colosseum; 5 min.
Enter from Via di San Gregorio; Farnese Gardens view; 45 min.
Ruins of the imperial palaces of Augustus, Tiberius and Domitian, the House of Livia, and the Farnese Gardens terrace looking straight down onto the Forum.
The civic heart of ancient Rome: walk the Via Sacra past the Curia, the Arch of Septimius Severus, the Temple of Vesta and the Basilica of Maxentius in one continuous site.
Michelangelo's piazza; view terrace behind Palazzo Senatorio is free; museum 90 min optional.
The world's oldest public museum: the original bronze Marcus Aurelius, the Capitoline Wolf and the Dying Gaul, plus the Tabularium gallery with a view across the whole Forum.
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Theatre of Marcellus
Ancient theatre with a Renaissance palace on top; 10 min.
Pizza ebraica at the Ghetto bakery; 10 min (closed Sat).
Unsigned kosher bakery run by the same family for generations; the pizza ebraica fruitcake and ricotta-and-sour-cherry tart are Roman-Jewish specialities.
