I was there a few weeks ago and in the Vatican's church. Both are big and impressive buildings but the only relevance they have is for tourism purposes, especia

I was there a few weeks ago and in the Vatican's church. Both are big and impressive buildings but the only relevance they have is for tourism purposes, especially the Colosseum, the vast majority are people on a weekend trip shooting a couple selfies. You have people illegally selling water bottles, artifacts and a couple layers of scammers offering you entry or bootleg tickets, unless the military or police are patrolling. All of them pestering you to buy anything, spoiling the experience. The only good take away from the Colosseum should be how to not treat humans in the future. It's a skid mark of human history used as a pedestal of the flamboyant and decadent formerly powerful. From what I read the city inhabitants did not really work, slavery and war based economy, society degenerated to these "games" being the highlight of it's culture. A sad state of affairs. Would you go and see the WWF wrestling arenas of the 80s? Anything to learn from that? If you wanna pay to see what is essentially a ruin(check online for representations of how it looked when new, it was deformed from earthquakes as well),do yourself a favor and make sure to book a ticket online, do not try on the site. Rome and Italy as a whole have much more to offer than a slaughterhouse ruin.