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

[@Thrna_1]

The world's most aesthetically pleasing torture facility.

[@whatever8250]

😂👏🏻

[@sergpie]

That’d be Los Angeles.

[@cameronwhitaker3864]

When I visited the Colosseum , I learned it was a place of more violence than I thought because both exotic animals and people were killed there. Apparently, war games and showing superiority over either animals or people opponents were popular.

[@sergpie]

No animal was safe from anyone 2000+ years ago. However, gladiatorial games were a lot less bloody and fatal than Hollywood leads one to believe. It’d only be on rare occasions that actual people were pitted to their deaths on the arena.

[@bobskanal]

War games and showing supporiority is still popular... Yes everything is getting a lot safer, but people are still watching that.

[@LMNevada]

The floor where the contests took place looks like many walls??

[@burdenastheygo3763]

That thing looks like it’s about to collapse..

[@erikaleonard2848]

They killed so many animal's in this place, we are lucky to have any left. My mouth fell open when I heard hippos were also once kept below the stage. I didn't know hippos were included . 😔😡

[@ShinMegamiTensei1]

They killed a lot more dude… even before the Flavian amphitheater (colosseum) whenever someone of high status died it was customary to have gory gladiatorial combat in which were based off of no mercy rules. Meaning that it was to the death no if ands or buts. The bloodshed was meant to be as a purification rite in a way actually.

[@sergpie]

@@ShinMegamiTensei1 There is literally no evidence of this except in poorly-directed American movies.

[@ReviewsChannel-e4r]

Certain tigers and elephants went extinct because of so many animals killed.

[@franklesser5655]

Those poor animals forced to perform!

[@CKing-he8wh]

They evidently got fed well..

[@bobskanal]

*and people

[@YanPutrisuryo]

I hope that the bloody cruelty belongs to the past, and that the civilization in the world among human gets better.

[@jackieeastom8758]

America has killed (and eatin) 6+ million babies, and the human cruelty cries out daily! Man’s inhumanity to man knows no bounds!

[@Aundrich]

For the glory of Rome was not found on the marble footsteps of the senate. But on the sands of the coliseum.

[@dzonikg28]

I don't know why not rebuild whole how it really was.. And in my country there is so many old fortress like 1000 years old and some even from Roman times but just left to decay.. Why not rebuild them how they really look like.. I want to see that not ruins.. But they say then it would be old anymore..

[@Zeuswashington]

True

[@ReviewsChannel-e4r]

The underside of the Colosseum is the hypogeum. Colosseum was built over Nero's palace.

[@jamescharney1]

Chris-your do get to go to the best places (my autocorrect wrote “beast” places, which here is correct too)!

[@andrenewcomb3708]

Is that apartment across the street still available? I'd love to live there and KZbin an invitation to all my experiences from the past.

[@andrenewcomb3708]

Of course, I'd have to practice a wry smile.

[@andrenewcomb3708]

AND do something like in "Passion of the Christ" in Gethsemane when He was arrested with people moving in different directions and the torches moving in different directions . . . and in the fog appears the Colosseum and me smiling.

[@sergpie]

Yes. For about $3.6 million. It’s still on the market.

[@jasonsmith530]

Glad to know Italy has overcome it’s pandemic issues

[@sergpie]

There were never any pandemic issues. Just the news on repeat.

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[@nem4youb]

The brutal torture of humans and animals that went on there is nothing to marvel at. It's actually sickening.

[@nem4youb]

@@3334-t2c i was just there in 2019, it's no secret the brutality that took place in colosseum for almost four centuries. Learn some history.

[@nem4youb]

@@3334-t2c what took place in the Roman colosseum wasn't exactly western civilisation's finest moment. The evil that men do . . .

[@slurpii4669]

Are you gonna cry about it?

[@CrazyBrosCael]

Putting modern ideologies on events that happened almost 2000 years ago is futile. You need to be more open minded, without your hands being tied.

[@whatever8250]

I have been to The Coliseum…. However.. to think of the brutality… makes me quite sad.

[@rustygribbler1380]

I heard its very haunted also

[@portlandreviewer2143]

There's hypochondriacs here?

[@jeffreydavis7895]

8

[@annmilner4950]

Why would you want to restore (or) want to visit something that represents a heathen culture: that thrived on blood and guts entertainment.

[@Chaoticuniverse-d2m]

Facts

[@worldcitizeng6507]

we learned from history, and not to repeat it

[@ShinMegamiTensei1]

It’s history and it should be preserved.

[@CigaretteTheChannel]

Because heathens can be interesting to learn about

[@dianac2498]

“A beautiful show” ? It’s trauma entertainment. People are still sick in the head. Nothing beautiful about it.

[@paolocleani9899]

Far batter that the wars ma de by the G ringos in Vietnam,Corea,Iraq,Afghanistan end so on..moran.

[@andrenewcomb3708]

Careful of the rascals that want to chip away and take some home.

[@doktorhunggari4415]

The restoration of ancient blood lust entertainment. Hmmm. Walking in the footsteps of gladiators? Hmmm What about walking in the footsteps of condemned political prisoners? Christians were slaughtered for sport and you are celebrating the prime venue? Whatever This life is much shorter than the next. 🙏🔑✌️

[@ShinMegamiTensei1]

Under the rule of Nero yes. Even had the name “Roman candle” named after them. Afterwards tyrus when he was emperor stopped the killing.

[@NikoChristianWallenberg]

There is no evidence of any Christians being killed at the Colosseum - the the Catholic Church's historians had to acknowledge this in recent years.