In this essay I will write about the great Colosseum of Rome and what stood inside to provide the citizens of Rome with some entertainment. The Romans had many choices of activities in their free time, such as playing ball games, board games, and watching gladiator fights at the Colosseum; it was the most popular type of entertainment. For many people today, Roman entertainment was considered cruel. However, not all forms of entertainment involved such violence as at the Colosseum. Poetry readings were also offered, although most people enjoyed the fights. The Colosseum was like our football stadiums, to entertain the citizens. However, their idea of ​​entertainment was very different from our idea of ​​entertainment today: inside the Colosseum, fights to the death took place between gladiators or between wild beasts and Christian prisoners. Every city had an emperor and the emperor of Rome was Nero. . Nero was thought to have gone a little crazy after discovering that some Roman citizens were becoming Christians. Back then, if you didn't believe in Roman gods and goddesses, you were considered a criminal. He asked his army to hunt them down and kill them. He set fire to the city, hoping to kill all the Christians. The Senate thought he was going crazy and extremely murderous since he had also killed his mother and wife, so they planned Nero's execution. He found out and Nero committed suicide himself. Vespasian came to the throne in 69 AD, after the death of Nero. Vespasian was the 9th Roman emperor and his goal was to restore peace and stability to Rome – which he succeeded in doing. He wanted to show the citizens of Rome how devoted he was to them, so he decided to build... middle of paper......manage and manage. The public could bet on the outcome of the events at the Colosseum, which brought people together. In 1244, the Catholic Church took possession and tried several projects to use the building, such as a wool factory for prostitutes and an arena. In 1749, Pope Benedict XVI declared the site where Christians had been martyred and thus dedicated the building to the Passion of Christ and installed the Stations of the Cross. Even today, on Easter Friday, the Pope leads the Stations of the Cross and a meditation is read at each of the fourteen stages of Christ's Passion located around the perimeter of the Colosseum. The Colosseum, although it is now almost 2000 years old, still provides entertainment not only to the locals but also to tourists who come from all over the world to marvel at its splendor and architectural brilliance..