His life as cardinal might today be considered unusual but those were times of swords, tournaments, and arts. He led many armed conflicts, including a campaign in 1515 alongside the inventor, Leonardo Da Vinci. His name was Giulio and when he was sixteen years old, Christopher Columbus arrived in America…

Now almost all of us know that it was the place where the gladiator games took place in Rome but the divergence between a “monument” and a kind of stadium for bloody fights prevents us from understanding the building in its birth and its existence. To understand it we must go back in time…

In those times you would have seen on the riverboats wares being carried to the spoiled capital pulled by oxen. On the opposite side, you can admire different buildings, an alley that snakes to a second smaller road. We are still outside the ancient harbor city of Ostia and what you’re looking for is the necropolis, the dead city…