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To: SunkenCiv
One of Italy's most popular landmarks, the Colosseum will undergo restoration this year as part of a 40-million euro revamp of historic sites in the capital Rome.

It doesn't seem like 40 million Euros would do much to restore marble buildings that are two thousand years old.

7 posted on 06/02/2010 5:14:16 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: wagglebee

This wouldn’t have happened if it hadn’t been so well made. The Circus Maximus was rebuilt of more durable materials after the wood predecessor burned to the ground, but the Colosseum is made of stacked barrel vaults which converge, thus leaning on each other. This also makes the movement in and out of the crowd easy to handle. If memory serves, one of the great columns used to mark the end of the straightaways survives at the site of the Circus Maximus, and not a lot else, considering its sheer size.


14 posted on 06/02/2010 5:56:52 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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To: wagglebee

40 million Euros.....

Probably for 2 bathrooms and an information booth.


17 posted on 06/02/2010 6:03:04 PM PDT by mowowie
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