The webcam above is located on the roof terrace of the Hotel
Forum Rome
You can choose which view you would like to see by clicking
on Choose a View option, selecting a view from the drop down
menu, and then clicking on Change View. There are views form
the top of the hotel to the Colosseum, The Roman Forum, Piazza
Venezia and over Via dei Fori Imperiale.
If you have any questions about the webcam,
please email info@romexplorer.com
Colosseum
Almost 2000 years ago, Emperor Vespasiano
built the Colosseum in rome - a giant oval stadium that was
capable of holding over 50,000 spectators. Th Colosseum was
inaugurated in 80AD by Vespasiano's son, Titus, with a series
of games that lasted 100 days and nights. The Colosseum was
originally known as the Flavian Amphitheatre.
Senate and Mamertine Prison
Senate, the home of democracy! The place
where the senators met for their political meetings. Julius
Caesar, Marc Anthony have all been inside here. This particular
building has been burned down many times and rebuilt. In the
middle ages it was converted into a church, but in the 1930s
it was given back to rome and the people of rome but it was
in such a bad state it was knocked down and rebuilt using
as much of the original material and bricks as possible to
keep it as original as possible. The floor inside is still
the original dating to around 200 a.d. It is very basic inside.
Just one room with three steps on both sides running almost
whole length of building. The senators used these steps as
seats. When they had to vote on something they would stand
up and move to one side of the building which meant they were
saying yes. The other side to saying no. It was a lot easier
to do a head count that way. At busy times there were up to
300 senators in the Senate.
Mamertine prison
This was the p lace where St Peter and St
Paul were held before their crucifixation. Plaques on wall
near entrance detail the people who were held here and sometimes
killed and the method of death, starvation, strangulation
etc. Below ground level there is the stone that Peter and
Paul were chained to and a small shrine.
Basilica Maxentius
Emperor Maxentius was building this as his
palace but never saw it finished. It was at time when Roman
empire split into two parts east and west. Maxentius here
in Rome in the West. Constantine in the East. These two Emperors
went to war against each other here in Rome at the battle
of the Milvian bridge December 28 312 a.d. Constantine killed
and defeated Maxentius and then just spent six months finishing
the palace off and so sometimes it is called basilica Constantine
Palatine Hill
Platform on palatine hill giving fantastic
view of the Roman Forum the centre of Rome for 1000 years.
Under the platform we can see the arches that were part of
the palace of Tiberius, Romes 2nd Emperor |
