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Colosseum set to get new floor for vistors designed to rotate to show underground chambers
The ancient Roman Colosseum is once again going to have a floor thanks to a new, hi-tech project announced by Italy’s culture ministry.
Key points:
- The last floor was removed by archaeologists to get a better glimpse of what lay below the arena
- The wooden platform will be made up of hundreds of slats that can be rotated to bring natural light into the underground chambers
- The Colosseum is Italy’s most popular tourist attraction, drawing some 7.6 million visitors in 2019
“It is an extraordinary project,” Culture Minister Dario Franceschini said, detailing the plans to create a flexible floor to give tourists a clearer idea of how the arena would have looked when gladiators fought to the death there.
“You will be able to walk on it and go to…
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