Colosseum is known to be the most famous and recognized landmark of the Ancient Rome. It was constructed around in 1st century AD and this huge arena had the seating capacity for around 45,000 spectators and was the largest Roman amphitheater of the world during that time. The arena was used for the ancient contests like gladiatorial combats, spectacles and to the extent of the execution of early believer of Christianity. In middle ages, the Colosseum was considered as the place of martyrdom and was being praised as a sacred place.

Foundation of the Colosseum was being laid by the Emperor Vespasian and the structure an artificial lake made by Nero in valley between Rome’s many hills, at the front of the Domus Aurea palace. At the time arena was used to be named as the Flavian Amphitheatre, after the name of the family of emperors who constructed it. The name “Colosseum” was not in use until 7th century, and derives its name from the colossal statue of Nero that once stood here. After Nero’s death, the statue was changed into the representation of Helios, the sun god. And it remained there till the Middle Ages and then further melted down for its bronze.

The amphitheatre at that time was in use and purposes of gladiatorial combats, mock sea battles, animal hunts, executions, re-enactments of famous battles, and dramas on the lore and legends of Classical mythology. The first festival of the Flavian Amphitheatre, that was the largest amphitheatre in the world, lasted for about 100 days, in which about 5,000 wild beasts were killed in the arena. Meanwhile, the Flavian Amphitheatre was kept on damaging due to fire and earthquake for several times and was continually being restored by the end of the 5th century. Finally, the gladiatorial fights were prohibited in the Arena by the Christian emperor Honorius in 407 and the fight with the wild beasts were banned in around 523. Honorius was inspired to ban the bloody spectacle of the gladiators due to a simple monk naming Telmachus who was killed while trying to stop the men fighting with each other.

From a visitor’s perspective, the exterior of the Roman Colosseum is formed of travertine that spends 527 meters around and is about four stories high. The arches of the second and third stories were kept with statues. In total there were 80 entrances to arena and of two were reserved for emperor and his accomplice. The arena had the support of about 5 meter high wall as to protect spectator from the attacks of the wild beasts. At the lower statue of Colossus statue of Nero after what the amphitheater has been named can be seen as the Colosseum and the nearby Temple of Venus and Roma.

Among many corner stones of the Roman civilization the Roman music is one of the pillars where all the crux of roman civilization occurs along with other distinct branches like Roman architecture and other forms of art and literature in Rome. The Music of Rome is highly intensive and there are included many venues for the music in Rome. Below are mentioned some of the popular venues for music in Rome.

• The Theater of the Opera: The Theater was constructed in the 1880s, during the building boom of the city and the efforts were in full swing to expand and provide capital of Rome, a new identity on an urban landscape. The theater has been witness to performances and works of many premieres like involving Tosca and Cavalleria rusticana. It is known for organizing events like as Visconti’s staging of The Marriage of Figaro. The theater has its own permanent orchestra, choir and ballet company, and presently is a very extensive multi-media historical archive.

• The National Academy of Santa Cecilia: This academy was recognized and had the approval of the Pope Gregory XIII in 1566 and is considered as one of the most reputed and prestigious musical spots and organizations in the world. It somehow survived its stature and the political up down of centuries, Rome being the capital of the Papal States, then after invasion by Napoleon, then capital of the new Italy in 1871. The Santa Cecilia Orchestra is a regular organization and over the years has exhibited its performances at different exhibitions halls and auditoriums in the city; the most recent one is the premises of the Parco della Musica, that is too massive new auditorium complex. The full orchestra and the Santa Cecilia chamber perform around 200 concerts in a year in Rome.

• The Roman Philharmonic Academy is popular for organizing the famous and popular performances of the Teatro Olimpico and becomes very active during a concert season. It has a very long and outlived history of promoting music education and community music.

• The Lazio Symphony orchestra presents its shows at Rome as well as elsewhere in the region of Latium.

• The new Parco della Musica: Started in 2002, it is a massive musical complex showing off three different musical complexes featuring massive complexes as well as three music auditoriums situated between the the Olympic Village and Parioli Quarter of Rome. It organizes regularly music consisting of classical, popular, and jazz music introducing music lovers with national as well as international music groups.

Among other centers of music in Rome is the Aula Magna of the Sapienza University, National Museum of Musical Instruments, the Youth Symphony of Rome and the Santa Cecilia music conservatory.

On excursion tour you can enjoy Rome and Italy that you will get different with perspective of modern times and tastes. On a Roman excursion tour you can have real Roman experience and can visit some of the most popular center of tourist attraction around Rome.

•    Mount Vesuvius: Mount Vesuvius is a stratovolcano on the Bay of Naples, Italy, around 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) east of Naples and a short distance from the shore. It is the only volcano in the Europe that has erupted within the period of last hundred years. Other two known active volcanoes in Rome are Etna and Stromboli, are located on islands. Mount Vesuvius is best known for its eruption in AD 79 which led to the destruction of Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. They were never again reconstructed and accidentally rediscovered in the 18th century. The eruption also changed the movement of the Sarno River and raised the sea beach. Vesuvius itself also have been changed to greater extent as its slope are devoid of any vegetation and its summit to has changed under the force of eruption.

•   Papal Blessing at Castelgandolfo: This is a very unique and special excursion tour as to receive a Papal Blessings at Castelgandolfo in the summer months.  However, there only very limited permissions are allowed to the event. There you can spend time with the Pope’s summer residence at Castelgandolfo. On a guide tour to the place you can have sightseeing in the region along with live commentary en route to Castelgandolfo and can get pickup from centrally located Rome hotels.

•    Pompeii: Pompeii is city that was buried after a long catastrophic eruption of the volcano Mount Vesuvius during the period of two days in 79 AD. The eruption merged Pompeii under 4 to 6 meters of ash and pumice, and the city was entirely lost for nearly 1,600 and discovered accidentally in the year 1599. Since, its excavation it provided an extraordinarily detailed insight into the life and culture of Roman Empire at that time. Presently, it is a World Heritage Site and one of the most popular centers of attractions in Italy visited by around two million visitors every year.

•    Assisi: It is a town and community of Italy in province of Perugia, in the Umbria region situated on the western flank of Monte Subasio. It was the birthplace of St. Francis, who established the Franciscan religious order in the town in 1208, and St. Clare, the founder of the Poor Sisters, that later on developed as the Order of Poor Clares after her death. Saint Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows of the 19th century was too born in Assisi.

•    Capri: It is an Italian island in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the Sorrentine Peninsula, on the southern side of the Gulf of Naples, in the Campania region of Southern Italy. It is been used as a resort from ancient times dating as back as to the Roman   Republic. The prominent  features of the island includes the Marina Piccola (the little harbour), the Belvedere of Tragara, the limestone cliff named as sea stacks that is situated above the sea (the Faraglioni), Anacapri, the Blue Grotto (Grotta Azzurra), and the ruins of the Imperial Roman villas. Capri has two harbors, Marina Piccola and Marina Grande.

The City of Rome is a unique and straightway center of attraction in Italy and once you are there you would never go to miss out special places of attraction. The city is very rich in monuments, churches, museums, art galleries, parks and gardens, shopping areas, theatre, cinemas and historic landmarks, below are briefed some of those special places of attraction

• Castel Sant’Angelo: The Mausoleum of Hadrian, better recognized as the Castel Sant’Angelo, is a towering cylindrical building in Rome. The building in the start was made by the Roman Emperor Hadrian as a mausoleum for him and his family. But later on building was being used as a fortress and castle and presently is reputed as a museum. The tomb of the Roman emperor Hadrian, also known to be Hadrian’s mole was constructed on the right bank of the Tiber, in period passing from 135 AD and 139 AD. Originally the mausoleum was an ornamented cylinder, with a huge garden top and golden quadriga. Hadrian’s ashes were placed here a year after his death in Baiae in 138 AD, together with those of his wife Sabina, and his first adopted son, Lucius Aelius, who too died in 138 AD. After that the remains of succeeding emperors too are located here with last recorded deposition being Caracalla in 217 AD.

• Chamber of Deputies: The Italian Chamber of Deputies is the lower house of the Parliament of Italy constituted of 630 seats, a plurality and is presently holds by liberal-conservative party People of Freedom. Deputies meet in the Palazzo Montecitorio. A member of the Chamber of Deputies has the style of onorevole (honorable). Its current president is Gianfranco Fini, from the People of Freedom party.

• Piazza Navona: It is a city square in Rome, Italy and is constructed on the site of Stadium of Domitian, it was made around first century AD in form of open space of a stadium. Centuries before Romans used to come here to see games so it is known as “Circus Agonalis”. Over the span of time the name changed to ‘in agone’ to ‘navone’ and later to ‘navona’. It being started as called public space in the last years of 15th century, when the city market was transferred to it from the Campidoglio. The Piazza Navona is a pleasing example of Baroque Roman architecture and art. Other important building in Piazza Navona are Stabilimenti Spagnoli, Palazzo de Cupis, Palazzo Torres Massimo Lancellotti, Church of Nostra Signora del Sacro Cuore, Palazzo Braschi (Museo di Roma)

• Pallazzo Barberini: Palazzo Barberini is a palace in Rome, central Italy, on the piazza of the same name in Rione Trevi and is home to the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica. The sloping site had formerly been occupied by a garden-vineyard of the Sforza family, in which a palazzetto had been built in 1549. The sloping site had passed from one cardinal to another during the sixteenth century, with no project fully getting off the ground.

• Piazza del Campidoglio: The Capitoline Hill situated between the Forum and the Campus Martius, is one of the seven hills of Rome. By passing the 16th century Capitoline had a few ancient ground-level ruins, completely covered by Medieval and Renaissance palaces around a piazza and its urban plan was designed by Michelangelo. The hill was the site of a temple for the Capitoline Triad, started by Rome’s fifth king, Tarquin the Elder. The city legend says that there a recovery of a human skull occurred when foundation trenches were dug out for the Temple of Jupiter by Tarquin’s order.

• Palazzo Senatorio: Constructed around the 13th and 14th century, the Palazzo Senatorio stands at the top of the Tabularium where in past there existed archives of ancient Rome. Peperino blocks from the Tabularium were it was re-used on the left side of the palace and at a corner of the bell tower. It presently keeps there the Roman city hall. Its double ramp stair case was conceived by Michelangelo. The fountain in front of the staircase constitutes the river gods of the Tiber and the Nile as well as Dea Roma (Minerva).

• Ponte Vittorio Emanuele: It is a very interesting and attractive bridge that spreads from Tiber River in Rome Italy. It binds central Rome to an area located at west of Vatican City. There dome of St. Peter’s cathedral can be seen at its background and vicinity.

• Spanish Steps: These set of steps in Rome, Italy, climbing a steep slope between the Piazza di Spagna and at the base and Piazza Trinita dei Monti under the influence of the church of Trinita dei Monti. It is the longest and the widest staircase in Europe. The monumental stairway of 138 steps was constructed by French diplomat Étienne Gueffier’s bequeathed funds of 20,000 scudi, in 1723–1725, connecting the Bourbon Spanish Embassy to the Holy See, and till now is situated below the Trinità dei Monti the church which was the patronage of the Bourbon kings of France. .

• Trevi Fountain: The fountain is located at the end portion of the Aqua Virgo and was constructed around in 19 BC. It carries water from the Salone Springs and supplies it to the fountains at the historic center of Rome with water. In 1732, Pope Clement XII commissioned Nicola Salvi to make a huge at the Trevi Square. The Restive Sea Horse at Trevi Fountain in central attraction to its development and construction. The central figure of the fountain, in front of a large niche, is Neptune, god of the sea. He is riding on his chariot in the shape of a shell, pulled by two sea horses and each of the sea horse is guided by a Triton. The water at the bottom of the fountain represents the sea and it is legend that if you are traveling to Rome than you should throw coin into the water by tossing it over your shoulder with back along to the fountain.