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Colosseo Anfiteatro Flavio

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Typology: Monuments

Address

Address: Piazza del Colosseo

Zone: Rione Monti (Colosseo-S.Giovanni-S.Maria Maggiore) (Roma centro)

Entrance to the Colosseum is at Sperone Valadier

Contacts

Web site: https://parcocolosseo.it/visita/orari-e-biglietti

Email: https://ticketing.colosseo.it/contattaci/ per l'italiano

Email: https://ticketing.colosseo.it/en/contattaci for english

Facebook: www.facebook.com/parcocolosseo

Instagram: www.instagram.com/parcocolosseo

Online purchase: https://ticketing.colosseo.it

Telephone booking: 06 21115843 (assistenza sulle prenotazioni)

Twitter: https://twitter.com/parcocolosseo

YouTube: www.youtube.com/ParcoColosseo

Opening times

Colosseum opening times
from 31 March to 30 September 2024
8.30 – 19.15
Last entrance at 18.15

Last entry one hour before closingLast entry one hour before closing

CONTACTS
https://ticketing.colosseo.it/en/contattaci

Please note:
The Roman Forum and the Palatine are located in the same archaeological area, therefore once you have entered the area you CANNOT access it using the same ticket a second time.

Accessibility: the monument has a lift for the disabled. Please ask the staff at the ticket window to access the upper floors, where a technician is available to help people with disabilities. Accessible equipped toilet available.

For security reasons it is strictly forbidden to enter with backpacks, camping, bulky bags and luggage/trolley. It is forbidden to access the monument with bottles and glasses containers, alcholic beverages and spray cans.
Access is not permitted to animals

Information

FREE ADMISSION DAYS:
- Every 1st Sunday of the month
Tickets can be collected without reservation in order of arrival at the ticket office in Piazza del Colosseo.
Also for Membership Card and Roma Pass holders.
> All information 1st Sunday of the month

> Free entries: 25 April, 2 June, 4 November 2024

EVERY DAY COMPULSORY ONLINE BOOKING OF ADMISSION TICKETS:

Ordinary 24h ticket - Colosseum, Roman Forum, Palatine
> https://colosseo.it/en/tickets/24h-colosseum-roman-forum-and-palatine/
Valid 24 h. It allows the access to: one entrance to Colosseum and one entrance to Forum - Palatine area. Colosseum entrance from ‘Sperone Valadier

24h Only Arena Ticket
> https://colosseo.it/en/tickets/24h-only-arena/
Allows access to: Roman Forum, Palatine, Imperial Forums and Colosseum with passage to the arena and spend a whole day in the Colosseum Archaeological Park.

Full Experience Arena Ticket
> https://colosseo.it/en/tickets/full-experience/
Allows access to: one entrance to the Colosseum with Arena pass, one entrance to the Palatine Forum area and SUPER sites. Colosseum Entrance from ‘Sperone Valadier’.
Valid 2 days from the first admission.

Full Experience Attic - Panoramic lift ticket
> https://colosseo.it/en/tickets/full-experience-attic-panoramic-lift/
It allows access to: one entrance to Colosseum, Roman Forum, Palatine, Domus Tiberiana, Rain Nymphaeum, Rara Avis. Flying Fashion in the Farnese Birdcages and Exhibitions 2024
Valid 2 days from first admission.

Full Experience Ticket - Underground and Arena
> https://ticketing.colosseo.it/en/eventi/full-experience-sotterranei-e-arena/
It allows access to: Entrance to the Colosseum, Access to the Arena of the Colosseum, Access to the Underground of the Colosseum at the booked time (show up 30 minutes before the indicated time), to the archaeological area of the Roman Forum-Palatine and Imperial Forums, to the SUPER sites and to the exhibitions possibly taking place at the Colosseum and the archaeological area of the Roman Forum-Palatine.
The Full Experience ticket is valid for 2 days from the first admission.

For updates and guidelines please visit > https://parcocolosseo.it/en/visit/opening-times-and-tickets

A new App, ParcoColosseo, has been released for visitors to discover the new tickets and routes in the PArCo.
Keep following on the official web site and across the @parcocolosseo social media accounts.

Modalità di partecipazione: Booking required

Agreement with

OMNIA , Roma Pass

Scheduled events

Spettacoli nell’Arena del Colosseo. I protagonisti (Exhibitions) from 2024-06-21

Calendario eventi di ottobre 2024 - A cura dell'Associazione culturale Rome4u (Guided tours and educational visits) from 2024-10-05 to 2024-10-31

Calendario Visite Guidate Ottobre 2024 - A cura dell'Associazione culturale Rome4u (Guided tours and educational visits) from 2024-10-05 to 2024-10-31

DUPLICATO DI [DUPLICATO DI [Roma imperiale con i visori VR - A cura dell'Associazione Culturale Back to the Past]] (Guided tours and educational visits) 2024-10-20

Description

The emperors of the Flavia family built this large amphitheater for gladiatorial shows and hunts of wild animals, which in the following centuries became the symbol of the Eternal City.
The building, called Colosseum starting from the Middle Ages perhaps due to the vicinity of an enormous statue of Nero (Colossus), rose on the area covered by the artificial lake of the Domus Aurea.

The works started under Vespasian and were terminated in the year 80 A.D. by Titus that promoted a magnificent inauguration with games that lasted apparently one hundred days, during which five thousand beasts were killed.

The construction was completed under Domitian (81-96).
The building has an elliptical plan and consists externally of a triple series of eighty travertine arches lined by Tuscanic semicolons in the first order, Ionic in the second and Corinthian in the third. We can still see on the top the shelves and the holes for the poles that sustained the large curtain that protected the spectators from the sun and the rain. Instead the numerous holes visible all over the outside surface were made during the Middle Ages with the purpose of recuperating the metal plates that kept the stone blocks together.

The arches on the ground floor gave access to the steps and stands for the public. Above the arches the Roman numbers that indicated the various sectors of the cavea are still visible. Only the main entrances, situated in correspondence of the main axes, were not numbered because reserved to privileged categories: magistrates, vestals, religious colleges, etc.. The northern entrance lead to the tribune reserved to the Emperor.

The underground basements where used to keep the machinery and the cages for the beasts, or as storage and service rooms. They are still visible today at the center of the amphitheater, but were originally covered with wooden boards that formed the surface of the arena. Four corridors located under the main entrances connected the basements with the outside: one led to the Ludus Magnus, the main barracks of the gladiators.

The shows were free of charge and the seats were assigned according to the class of belonging: some stands in the lower sector that were reserved to the senators bear inscriptions with the names of 195 personalities of the senatorial order belonging to the period of Odoacer (476-483).

The gladiatorial games were definitively forbidden by Valentinian the Third after the year 438 A.D., while the shows with hunts of wild beasts continued until 523. In the Middle Ages the Colosseum was transformed into a fortress that belonged firstly to the Frangipane and then to the Annibaldi family.

After becoming a quarry of construction material and being unceasingly dispoliated for centuries, in 1749 it was consecrated by Benedict the Fourteenth to the Passion of Jesus and "reutilized" as a monumental Via Crucis.

At the beginning of the nineteenth century the first interventions to statically reinforce the structure were performed and the large brick walls that still retain what remains of the external perimeter were built.

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