Ruins

By Ruby

Peeking into a tomb

On Thursday we went to Salona, a Roman town!

First we took a bus to an empty parking lot. Coming off of the lot was a road, the road was dirt and about 150 meters long. We walked along the edge of the road until we came to a green field.


On the green field was a basilica. It was made of grey crumbling stone. It smelled like a cave. Everywere around it there were tombs carved out of the same grey stone as the basilica.


In one tomb, I even found a bunch of old bones. And they were human bones!


We went down the hill on the road next to a lot of grassy terraces. The terraces had light green grass and the edges were lined with wild roses. There was only one tree with cool shade under it.


Finaly we got to more ruins, a Cathedral. It was huge with many crumbling roomes (in the city around it?). Me and Celeste played hide and go seak. First I hid in a room full of flowers. Then Celeste hid in a well. In another building (the bath house) there was a way you could get up on a wall.

We decided to see the colosseum next.


The colosseum was a circular field with stone seats all around it. But they were crumbling. Now there are mostly a bunch of fallen-in archways. The walls were made of stone as well. You could walk down a slope and across an archway, well, you could walk over 20 archways if they weren't broken!