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    3. Gammelpreiss on

      Agreed to the restauration proposals. what is the point of keeping that ruin if you just as well use it as an actual stadium. that isnwhy it was built in the first place

    4. LordOvFlatulence on

      I don’t want to be that guy (lies, I love being that guy) but 1945 years ago.

    5. _MrSeb on

      The image below kinda looked like one of those city builder rome games and I was very confused

    6. johnschnee on

      Didn’t know that they managed it to take such great aerial photos such a long time ago! Amazing!

    7. InsideHousing4965 on

      I’ve always been in favour of the restoration of ancient monuments using the appropriate techniques and materials.

      But I wonder, why are some people against it? What’s your point of view on this?

    8. TheFishyBanana on

      The real jaw-dropper is that this giant structure – still standing today – was built in barely a decade, starting in 72 AD and essentially finished by 82 AD. And it was done with what we’d call “simple tools” compared to today – though for the Romans, their cranes, pulleys and engineering tricks were state of the art.

      Anyone who has seen it in person knows how massive and refined it is. It had ~80 exits, wide staircases and “vomitoria” that could clear 50,000 people within minutes – safety standards modern stadiums still try to emulate.

      Rebuilding it today would cost billions, take far longer thanks to bureaucracy and red tape, and likely be torn down within a few decades. The Colosseum has stood for almost 2,000 years and still dominates the cityscape.

      Yes, much of it was built by war captives and slaves under brutal conditions – but also by highly skilled Roman craftsmen. And that’s the bitter irony: today, in developed countries, we have free, well-paid specialists with advanced training, modern machinery and high-tech materials – yet we rarely manage to create buildings that come anywhere close in durability or grandeur.

      **Edit:** If you ever get the chance: visit Rome, walk the Palatine Hill, visit the Forum Romanum, the Circus Maximus, Nero’s Golden House – and make time for Ostia and Tivoli. What the Romans built is simply mind-blowing.

      And here’s one more thing: people calling for “restoration” have never walked those corridors, never looked down from the tiers into the arena. A restoration wouldn’t improve it – it would destroy the authenticity. The full impact only comes in the larger context: the Palatine Hill, the Forum Romanum, the Circus Maximus, the baths – an enormous area. The best option isn’t invasive rebuilding but virtual reconstruction and VR city tours, which can actually convey the scale far better.

      Fun side note: you’ll also find Roman amphitheaters in places like Arles and Nîmes in France – much smaller, but fascinating and still in use today, mainly because they’re better preserved. Metallica played 2009 in the colessum of Nîmes, Ramstein in 2017 and many others too. Rome, by contrast, was pillaged for centuries, its monuments used as quarries, until attitudes shifted again in the late Renaissance.

    11. SuperEtenbard on

      We can rebuild her and add digital billboards for Emirates and Bet365

    13. tirex367 on

      I do have to say Rome kinda got lucky, that its most famous building is probably one of the buildings from antiquity that was the most set up to handle the masses it is confronted with today.

    14. Wojewodaruskyj on

      I wonder if there was more or less garbage in tbe streets of Rome 2000 years ago.

    16. Jbstargate1 on

      Would it ever be in favour to rebuild it? I mean it’s obviously priceless but imagine it was rebuilt and actually used for events. Rebuilt in the same design and look/feel of the original. It’s nice to see the ruins but that’s all they are.

    19. JuniorAd1210 on

      False. The Colosseum, or the Flavian Amphitheatre as it was known to the Romans, was much like other buildings in Rome originally painted in color, and not the bare stones we see today.

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