Colosseum, Rome - Fotografia de stock

Otherwise known as the Arena of Death - although not all battles ended in death. For each victory in the arena, a gladiator was paid the equivalent of a Roman soldier's yearly pay. It's true name, the Flavian Amphitheatre, is an elliptical amphitheater in the center of the city of Rome, Italy, the largest ever built in the Roman Empire, and considered one of the greatest works of Roman architecture and Roman engineering