🇮🇹 Fee, Fi, Fo, Fummm - Big Roman Stuff
Where Mass is MASSIVE!
How many of you remember the fairy tale “Jack and the Beanstalk?”
You know, the one with the giant that shouts as he’s searching for little boy Jack:
“Fe, Fi, Fo, Fum...I smell the blood of an Englishman.
Be he alive or be he dead I’ll grind his bones to make my bread.”
As I approached this door, I wondered which giant might come charging through and grind me into bread.
It’s MASSIVE!
In all seriousness, though, everything in Rome is like this. Something as simple as a door became a behemoth. The Roman Empire was built to exude power.
Mission Accomplished!
I am all of 5 feet in stature. But even the “tallest of tall” would be captivated walking among such mammoth creations.
Architecture Speaks Volumes
Can you imagine what it would have been like walking into Rome some 2765 years ago? That’s approximately when the city was completed.
The structures would be completely intact, unlike today. Palatine Hill, where Romulus first founded Rome and later with its grand palaces of Emperors; Circus Maximus, where they held chariot races and other Roman entertainment; the Roman Forum, where daily life took place, including governmental buildings, temples, and monuments, and Mamertine Prison, a place I would be terrified to end up. And, of course, the enormous Colosseum.
I would be extremely intimidated. Maybe even a bit fearful.
But today, life is different there. We get to “peek in” and catch a glimpse of that time in history. The fact that many of these massive structures are still standing today is proof of how mighty the minds of the architects and engineers were at that time. And how strong the builders had to be to create the structures.
Rome truly is MASSive. You MUST see it for yourself.
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Thank you so much, Gabi! It was fun to write this post.
Love the theme of the photos and the post! :)