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Free admission Sunday 7 April 2024 | domenicalmuseo

First Sunday of every month the Parco archeologico del Colosseo adheres to the initiative with the following visiting options: Route Colosseum, Roman Forum, Palatine a single visit to the Colosseum, the Roman Forum and the Palatine Route Forum Pass to visit the Imperial Forums, the Roman Forum and the Palatine in a single visit Tickets can be ... Read more »

La Colonna Traiana. The narration of a symbol

13 February 2024

The exhibition “La Colonna Traiana. The narration of a symbol“, organised and promoted by the Archaeological Park of the Colosseum and Museo Galileo – Institute and Museum of the History of Science under the curatorship of Alfonsina Russo, Federica Rinaldi, Angelica Pujia and Giovanni Di Pasquale will be open from December 22, 2023 to April ... Read more »

Gladiators in the Arena. Between Colosseum and Ludus Magnus

The Parco archeologico del Colosseo presents the exhibition event ‘Gladiators in the Arena. Between Colosseum and Ludus Magnus‘, curated and realised by the Parco archeologico del Colosseo with Alfonsina Russo, Federica Rinaldi, Barbara Nazzaro and Silvano Mattesini. The event consists of a permanent multimedia installation and a temporary exhibition that can be visited from 21st ... Read more »

The Moon over the Colosseum 2023

The Parco archeologico del Colosseo resumes from Saturday the 4th of March 2023 the night tours of the Flavian Amphitheatre, in collaboration with Electa and Coopculture. The guided tour covers both the best known history of the monument, that of the Amphitheatre in ancient Rome told through the floor of the arena and the underground ... Read more »

Archaeological work on the Colosseum square: DIG DIARIES of the southern side and the two collapsed ambulatories of the Colosseum

During the period October 2022-February 2023, archaeological investigations will take place in order to excavate the two collapsed corridors (or ambulatories) on the southern front of the Colosseum. The area extends from the so-called Valadier buttress (fornix number LX) in the west to the so-called Stern buttress (fornix number XVIII) in the east, named after ... Read more »

The Moon over the Colosseum 2022 – The Roman and Christian Colosseum

Tornano le visite serali nel Colosseo, fino al 31 dicembre 2022

Reopening concert in the Colosseum Arena

31 January 2021

The Parco archeologico del Colosseo is reopening to the public on Monday, 1 February 2021: well-aware of art’s ability to help us overcome difficult moments such as the one that we are all experiencing, the students of the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia will be holding a concert in the Colosseum arena at 12:30. The event ... Read more »

Stories from the Colosseum. Epigraphy lessons: The tituli picti of the intermediate gallery

25 January 2021

For the third of our four lessons on epigraphy, we will be climbing the steps of the Colosseum’s cavea up to the intermediate gallery located between the second and third tiers of seating. Our third meeting with Professor Silvia Orlandi revolves around a single color: red. Red like the plaster that covered the walls of ... Read more »

Stories from the Colosseum. Epigraphy lessons: on the cavea, loca and the spectators

25 January 2021

In the 1930’s, a portion of the Colosseum’s cavea was reconstructed on the monument’s eastern side, where the public once sat to take in long days of entertainment, from wild animal hunts to gladiatorial battles. Although the reconstruction is not perfectly accurate, it nevertheless succeeds in evoking the ways in which the public filled the ... Read more »

Stories from the Colosseum. Epigraphy lessons: the Lampadius inscription

23 January 2021

First epigraphy lesson with prof. Slivia Orlandi about the Lampadius inscription and the inaugural epigraph of the Colosseum.