Rome Archives - Mechtraveller https://mechtraveller.com/tag/rome/ Mechanically-minded travel Mon, 13 Apr 2026 17:30:55 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Rome’s Colosseum is to get a high tech stage floor https://mechtraveller.com/2021/05/romes-colosseum-is-to-get-a-high-tech-stage-floor/ https://mechtraveller.com/2021/05/romes-colosseum-is-to-get-a-high-tech-stage-floor/#respond Tue, 04 May 2021 13:51:32 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=6846 Italy’s Minister of Culture, Dario Franceschini, has announced the winner of a technical tender to design and build a new stage floor for the 2,000 year old Colosseum. The original wooden arena floor covered an underground network of rooms and corridors, which housed the waiting animals, gladiators and performers. This level was exposed in the […]

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