Coliseum

If you have ever visited Rome, you must have seen the Coliseum.

The Coliseum was the former arena in ancient Rome.

Gladiators fought to the death inside the Coliseum.

While the Coliseum stands, Rome shall stand; when the Coliseum falls, Rome shall fall; when Rome falls, the world shall fall.

More vividly than all the written histories, the Coliseum tells the story of Rome's grandeur and Rome's decay.

the London Coliseum

Has he not found this wide region profusely sprinkled with public works—highways, bridges, acqueducts,^([sic]) arches, palaces, Colisea,—massive, Roman-built?

The nibbèd feather plumes its flights toward thee, / Thou mistress of mad poets and of night, / Cynthia, whom science weakly holds to be / The milky way’s coagulated light, / Or scooped from verdant Colisea of the Mite.

Old-fashioned republicans like Cato in Rome deplore intricate hairdos, fringes on the toga, Lucullan banquets, specialized artisanry, the scale of entertainment in the Colisea and Circuses, toplofty military triumphs, sexual excess, serial marriage, and overindulgence of every kind.

These complex structures, whose towers seemed to touch the heavens, with ornate windows, vaulted ceilings and flying buttresses, were the Wembley Stadia, the Melbourne Cricket Grounds and the LA Memorial Colisea of their day – soaring temples to the worship of God designed to accommodate thousands, as awesome to behold then as they are today.