It\u2019s official:<\/p>\n
TripAdvisor has crowned the Colosseum as 2019\u2019s most popular monument in the world!<\/strong><\/p>\n Over the course of the past year, the number of tours booked at the Flavian Amphitheater and the site\u2019s approval rating have surpassed those of Paris\u2019s Louvre, which came in at a close second in the ranking.<\/p>\n Conservation, fruition and promotion policies<\/strong> put in place since the institution of the Parco archeologico del Colosseo have proven successful<\/strong>.<\/p>\n \u201cIn the past two years, the public\u2019s familiarity with the site has increased thanks to new thematic itineraries (from the archaeological nature path to the multimedia itinerary dedicated to ancient painting), permanent exhibitions (\u201cIl Colosseo si racconta\u201d) and temporary shows (\u201cRoma Universalis. <\/em>L\u2019Impero e la dinastia venuta dall\u2019Africa\u201d in 2018 and \u201cCarthago. <\/em>The immortal myth\u201d, inaugurated last September and still in progress)\u201d<\/em> \u2014 says Alfonsina Russo, Director of the Parco archeologico del Colosseo<\/strong> with pride. \u201cThe PArCo has also improved its hospitality towards foreign visitors with the availability of Korean language audio guides and informational panels in Chinese, in addition to our website now being available in Chinese and Spanish (<\/em>www.parcocolosseo.it)<\/em><\/a>\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n But that\u2019s not all, as restorations<\/strong> and research<\/strong> are currently underway in the Colosseum to increase the number of visitor itineraries, for example the so-called \u201cPassage of Commodus\u201d: the secret tunnel used by emperors to access the imperial tribune where literary sources speak of an assassination attempt on the emperor Commodus.<\/p>\n Additionally, plans are being made to give visitors access to the monument\u2019s uppermost levels, contributing to an even more breathtaking visit to the Colosseum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It\u2019s official: TripAdvisor has crowned the Colosseum as 2019\u2019s most popular monument in the world! Over the course of the past year, the number of tours booked at the Flavian Amphitheater and the site\u2019s approval rating have surpassed those of Paris\u2019s Louvre, which came in at a close second in the ranking. Conservation, fruition and… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2585,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11472"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11473,"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11472\/revisions\/11473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}