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ITINERARIES COLOSSEO 
The Colosseo, originally known like Flavio Amphitheater or simply like Amphitheatrum, is the most
famous roman amphitheater, and is situated in the center of the city of Rome. In a position to
containing until 50.000 spectators, it was the greatest and important amphitheater of the imperial
age. It came used for the gladiatòri shows and other public manifestations (hunting shows,
rievocazioni of famous battles, and dramas it bases to you on classic mythology). Built up in an
area to the limit it orients them of the Roman Hole, its construction was begun between the 70 and
the 72 under Vespasiano emperor, and concluded in the 80 under Tito, with ulterior modifications
brought during the reign of Domiziano. Not more in use after YOU century, the enormous structure
came variously red-use in the centuries, also like material quarry. Today it is a symbol of the
city and one of its greater tourist attractions, being one of the examples better conserved of
the roman architecture. The building forms an ellipse of 527 m of circumference, with aces that
measure 188 m for 156 m. the arena to inner measure 86 m for 54 m, with one surface of 3.357 m².
The height puts into effect catches up them i 48,5 m, but originally it arrived to i 52 m. The
external facade is articulated in four orders: the three inferiors with 80 arched on pillars, to
which lean semicolumns on pedestals, while the quarter is constituted from a full wall,
scompartita from lesene in correspondence of the pillars of the arched ones. In the features of
wall between the lesene 40 small quadrangular windows, every a two riquadri are opened, and
immediately over the level of the windows three sporgenti consoles for every are placed riquadro,
in which they were lodges the wood poles to you that came use you in order to open and to close
the velarium, the cover cloth that repaired the spectators, maneuvered from a detachment of
sailors of the fleet of Miseno. The semicolumns and the lesene of the four orders have to leave
from the bottom capitelli tuscanici, ionic, corinzi and corinzi to smooth leaves. The first three
orders repeat the same visible succession on the external facade of the theatre of Marcello. The
building rests on one sopraelevata platform in travertino regarding the surrounding area. The
foundations are constituted from one great platea in cementizio of approximately 13 m of thickness,
lined to the outside from a wall in tile. The carrying structure is constituted from pillars in
blocks of travertino, connects to you from hinges: after the abandonment of the building these
metallic elements were attempted in order to fuse them and to re-use them, digging the blocks in
correspondence of the joints: to this activity the numerous very visible holes must on the
external facade. The pillars were connect to you from murari septa in blocks of tufo in the
inferior order and tile advancedly. A complex system of adduction and water smaltimento
concurred the maintenance of the building and fed the Fontanas placed in the cavea for the
spectators. A first participation of restoration was had under Devout Antonino. A fire in the
217 made to collapse the advanced structures and, after the jobs of restoration of Eliogabalo and
Strict Alexander, the building came reopened in the 222, not completed. The restorations were
complete to you under Gordiano III. Other damages for fire work were had in 250 or 252 and the
320. After the Bag of Rome to work of the Visigoti di Alarico of the 410, on podio that it
encircled the arena it came engraved in honor of Onorio emperor, perhaps as a result of
restorations. The registration came subsequently cancelled and rewritten in order to remember
great jobs of restoration after an earthquake in the 442, to work of the city preslices Flavio
Sinesio Gennadio Paul and Rufio Happy Cecina Lampadio. Other restorations were still had in the
470 (consul Flavio Messio Strict Febo). The restorations continued also after the fall of the
empire: after an earthquake in the 484 or the 508 prefetto the city Decio Mario Venanzio Basilio
carried out the restorations to own expenses. After the abandonment century to interment area
was used in YOU and little after it came used for scopes inhabited to you. In XIII the century
it was occupied from a palace of the Frangipane. subsequently demolished, but it continued to
being occupied from rooms. The blocks of travertino were systematically remove to you in the
XV and XVI century for being res-use to you in new constructions, and blocks fallen to earth
was still uses you in 1634 for the construction of Barberini palace and in 1703 for the port
of Ripetta. A famous description of this "pillage" is in the Quod saying not fecerunt Barbarian,
fecerunt Barberini ("That that did not make the Barbarians, made the Barberini"). In the course
of the giubileo of 1675 it assumed the character of sacred place in memory of the many Christian
martyrdoms condemned here to the torture and in 1744 Pope Benedict XIV it made to construct the
15 newspaper stands you of the way crucis. As a result of the structural dissesti had the first
restorations: spurs to support of the extremities remained in feet of the facade were constructed
in 1807 to work of Raffaele Stern and in the 1826 from Giuseppe Valadier, that it recomposed in
the new work it leave of the structures already collapsed. Other restorations in the inside had
between 1831 and 1846. At the same time it was begun to free the monument from I bury with the
diggings directed from Carl Fea in 1811 and 1812 and with those of Peter Rose (1874-1875). In
1938 and 1939 completely the structures were dug basements of the arena, in part altered from
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