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Italy: After 2,000 years, there will be live performances at the Colosseum again
An ambitious engineering project is designed to embed a huge, removable floor in the Colosseum, which will serve as an arena for cultural and musical events.
"The gladiators will not return," jokes the director of the amphitheater, which has become a global symbol
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Wednesday, 30 December 2020, 18:06
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The floor of the Colosseum will be closed in stormy weather, and will create a complex where concerts will be held (Photo: AP)
It is currently closed to visitors, but a bright future seems to await at the Colosseum in Rome, the largest amphitheater ever built - now considered the most popular tourist attraction in Italy.
In Italy there are those who plan for the day after the plague, while the Colosseum will host music performances, theater performances and even just stand where the gladiatorial battles were held in the days of the Roman Empire.
The Travel and Leisure website reports that the Italian government has approached proposals from a number of engineering companies, with the aim of building a removable infrastructure that will serve as a huge floor in the heart of the Colosseum.
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Will host music performances and theater performances.
The Colosseum (Photo: Shutterstock)
An underground maze instead of a floor
Today - as in recent centuries - the Colosseum has no floor at all.
In its place, visitors are exposed instead to an underground maze where tunnels were used for various purposes.
Among other things, they had spaces with doors that served as cages where wild animals fighting gladiators waited.
The Colosseum's removable floor project is expected to be budgeted at about $ 22.5 million.
The proposals are expected to be submitted by early February 2021, and the ambitious project is expected to be completed by 2023. "This is a technological innovation that will offer visitors the opportunity to view not only the underground rooms, but also appreciate the beauty of the Colosseum while standing at its center," he told reporters. Dario Francescini, Italian Minister of Culture.
According to the report, the Colosseum floor will be closed in inclement weather, creating a compound where concerts and live performances will be held.
"The gladiators will not return," jokes the director of the Colosseum, Alfonso Russo.
"But the arena will be used for high culture, that is, for concerts or theater performances."
The Colosseum site was closed to public visits in March 2020, when Italy experienced the Corona plague in full force.
It reopened in June, only to close once again in November, with the second wave hitting Italy.
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