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After massive restoration, Rome's iconic arena opens up substructure under main stage

Mar 14, 2024
Starting today, visitors to Rome's famous coliseum can follow in the footsteps of ancient gladiators after a

massive

restoration

. The area below the

main

stage

is open to the public. In ancient times it housed workers, fighters and exotic animals. Our Chris Livesay joins us from the depths. in the coliseum with how visitors can return to history chris lucky homework good morning to you good morning tony yes from the depths of the coliseum now just imagine it above me 75,000 ancient Romans screaming for blood but not a single one of those spectators any Once I could see the coliseum from here as a theater in the round the coliseum had no back

stage

instead, as Russell Crowe's character and gladiator found out the hard way, it was an understatement, you can imagine, you know how surprising it could be be for the public and also for the animal like a box of surprises and now the coliseum is allowing visitors to enter the deepest depths of this layer known as hyper gm and it has not raised the curtain for a long time since the year 523 says the Technical director Bárbara Nacero More or less 1,800 people could work here in the backstage, so imagine to keep a hyper alive, there were hippos here.
after massive restoration rome s iconic arena opens up substructure under main stage
Yes, of course, you can still see the little arches that hoisted the biggest special effects the world has ever seen. It was a very, very beautiful spectacle but also a very bloody spectacle. Not everything was bloody and not only for the gladiators, even the convicts were forced to perform classical theater and then wild animals ate them alive when the scene required it. This is a wonderful work of architecture, but it is also the monument of our civilization how we have changed now accessible like never before thanks to the latest phase of a 30 million dollar

restoration

the owner of the Italian luxury shoe company todds now this it's beautiful what is this look it was our first factory my grandfather's factory so from here to all this to the coliseum this is italy it's not just when you see a bag when you see a pair of expensive shoes it's an aptitude for the italian people a restoration so colossal, he says, shows that today's Italians can still achieve great things, now there's big news for travelers this week Italy announced it will lift the ban for Americans as long as they have been vaccinated and tested negative or can prove that they have had covid.
after massive restoration rome s iconic arena opens up substructure under main stage

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Check one of those boxes and you too can see the coliseum like a gladiator Jerica Chris lives, she says in Rome. Thank you, I can't wait to go. I've been. Is incredible. You don't want to go like a gladiator. No, no, they didn't end well for the gladiators. We'll be right back.
after massive restoration rome s iconic arena opens up substructure under main stage

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