Colosseum

Most vacationers in Rome put the Colos­se­um on the high of their to-see checklist. (My very own sis­ter-in-law, quickly to move out on her Ital­ian hon­ey­moon, plans to move to that sto­ried smash kind of straight from the air­port.) Even these with no par­tic­u­lar inter­est in historical Roman civ­i­liza­tion, step­ping into the house that was…