The Colosseum, Rome · Travel Poster

Not just a view, the heritage behind it. Ella writes about the place, its hidden history, and the details that never make it into the guidebooks, all printed on the poster.

Two thousand years have passed since the first crowds filed beneath the Colosseum's arches, and still the stones hold the noise of it all. The amphitheatre rose in under a decade, built on a site chosen for reasons that say everything about the emperor who came before it. Eighty arches opened onto a tiered world where senators sat in marble seats and the poorest Romans craned from the uppermost rows. The poster tells the story of what stood there before the Colosseum, and why tearing it down was the whole point.

An original illustration, available in colour or black and white, created for the Ella's Adventures travel poster series.

No frame included.

Please note that, to protect the original artwork from copyright infringement, the images shown on this website are low resolution. The poster you receive is printed in high resolution, with all the detail and clarity of the original.