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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.
Of Rome’s countless inspirational churches and palazzos, it is the Colosseum — what Byron called “the gladiator’s bloody circus”—that is the symbol of the city’s eternity.
A kilometer (about half a mile) south of the Colosseum, the huge third-century Baths of Caracalla (Terme di Caracalla) were built for 1,600 people to bathe in considerable style and luxury.
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.
On a site once 25 times the size of the Colosseum, only 30 rooms of the 250-room palace can be visited, and by guided tour only.