This morning I visited the Colosseum and Palatino. Everyone goes to the Colosseum first and there the ticket queue was quite long. However it’s a combined ticket for both, so I bought mine at the empty Palatino ticket booth and then walked the 100m back to the Colosseum and walked straight in! The building itself quite impressive and entry to the games was free for ordinary roman citizens.
However everyone got a ticket with a seat number, so that the entry and exit of thousands of roman citizens was carefully orchestrated. The best seats were those closest to the arena, held by Senators who had their names craved above them. In the afternoon I explored a bit more of central Roma and did some grocery shopping. Food prices here are close to Firenze, about 5% cheaper overall.
