Advantages: A quiet spot to escape the tourist frenzy of Rome Disadvantages: Quiet!
...on our way to the Circus Maximus.
What a swizz!
The Circus Maximus bears as much resemblance to the Big Top as a hippodrome does to a rhinoceros. Why it's nothing more than a huge open space where spectators used to watch races and such in Roman times.
It dates back to Etruscan times when it was first used to entertain the masses but its heyday arrived around 50BC when Julius Caesar had the builders in and enlarged the place to accommodate ...
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The Circus Maximus is best viewed from one of Rome's great hills, the Palantine. From here you can see down onto the immense stretch of grass, where crowds of just under a quarter of a million people would come to watch the chariot racing.
They used to do it in a bit more splendour than you can now see. Back then, there would have been row upon row of marble seats, where as now there are just the raised and grassy banks remaining.
It takes a ...
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