In the middle ages the Colosseum was occupied by Rome’s warrior families, the Frangipane and Annibaldi.
  

Damaged several times by earthquakes, the Colosseum was used as a quarry for travertine and marble for the Palazzo Venizia and other buildings in Rome.

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