Note: Keep in mind that most Colosseum tours only give you access to the arena floor and upper level. If you want to visit the hypogeum (Colosseum underground), you need to make sure it's included ...

Similarly, you can buy tickets to the “Underground” (or “Dungeon”) portion of the Colosseum, which is below the arena floor. Some tours package both the Floor and Underground together and ...

“You will be able to walk on it and go to the center of the Colosseum ... waited to enter the arena, has been in place since 2000. The current plans to cover the entire floor have been in ...

A new arena floor will be added to Rome’s iconic Colosseum to give visitors an idea of how the ancient Italian structure looked when gladiators fought there. The project “will give us back the ...

Seating at the Colosseum was divided according to social hierarchy. The best seats were on the lower level, closest to the arena floor—these were reserved for the emperor and the Vestal Virgins ...

During gladiatorial games in the arena, a vast network of man-powered machinery made animals and scenery appear from beneath a wooden floor as if by magic. Dave Yoder The floor of the colosseum ...

During the four centuries that the Romans used the Colosseum, the hypogeum, or network of underground tunnels beneath the arena floor, resembled a “huge sailing ship,” wrote Tom Mueller for ...

Digging deep basins in the floor of large amphitheaters like ... it seems logical that at least some Christians were martyred in the Colosseum’s arena," he wrote in "Gladiators: Violence and ...

Rome's ancient Colosseum, the famous arena where gladiators and wild animals once clashed in violent combat, will soon have a new retractable floor built over its center. "You will be able to walk ...