Colosseum, Italy - Architecture

Monuments

The greatest relic of the ancient times, the archetypical amphitheater, an engineering marvel, the quintessence of architectural brilliance, a footing testimony of both the sumptuousness and the brutality of the Roman world - the Colosseum has been dubbed myriad ways, but there's just no way of grasping their meaning until you see the blues of the sky through the perfectly curved arches. Designed to hold 50,000 spectators eager to watch the bloody spectacle, today it annually draws around 5 million willing to verify its world-acclaimed magnificence and never fails to make them catch their breath.