The Colosseum wasn’t just for gladiator fights—it could be flooded for epic mock naval battles called naumachiae! Imagine gladiators on real ships splashing around as they battled, with the crowd roaring like they were at a thrilling sports game—talk about a wild spectacle!

The Palatine is one of the seven hills of Rome, located between the Velabro and the Roman Forum, and is one of the oldest parts of the city. The site is now a large open-air museum and can be visited during the day. The entrance is located in via di San Gregorio (admission fee), or you can go up the Palatine by entering the Roman Forum (admission fee) and then going up the Clivus Palatine, to the right of the Arch of Titus.

The Roman Forum is an archaeological area of ​​Rome enclosed between the Palatine Hill, the Capitoline Hill, Via dei Fori Imperiali and the Colosseum, made up of the stratification of remains of those buildings and monuments from heterogeneous eras which for much of Rome's ancient history represented the political, legal, religious and economic center of the city of Rome, as well as the nerve center of the entire civilization Roman.