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Proposals to demolish this street and restore the unity of the whole archaeological zone from the Capitoline Hill to the Colosseum are often in the news.
The major Italian guidebook to Rome soberly claims that this building has been nicknamed Il Colosseo Quadrato , `The Square Colosseum.
The name Colosseum , now usually taken to refer to its size, originally referred to the fact that the amphitheater was built adjacent to a huge statue (a colossus ) of the sun god that had been commissioned by Nero, allegedly in his own likeness.
Immediately northeast of the Colosseum is the Domus Aurea, the fabulous villa with extensive gardens built by the Emperor Nero, who spent just a few years in his “Golden House” before killing himself in a.d. 68.
Narrow streets southeast of the Campo de’ Fiori take you to the Jewish Ghetto near the ruins of the ancient Roman Theater of Marcellus (Teatro di Marcello), architectural model for the Colosseum.