Posted on 05/21/2009 3:53:13 PM PDT by bruinbirdman
Rome is to put over 30 historical sites including a gladiators training ground and the aqueduct that feeds the Trevi Fountain on display for the first time.
The sites, part of a vast network of tunnels, caves and catacombs which lie beneath the city, will be open from the end of this month.
Highlights are the 2,000-year-old aqueduct which is still used to bring water to parts of the city, including the Trevi Fountain, and Ludus Magnus, where gladiators – many of them slaves and prisoners of war – were taught how to fight..
There is also the headquarters of ancient Rome's firefighting brigade, a well-preserved necropolis buried underneath the Vatican and early temples dedicated to the cult of Mithras, which was popular in ancient Rome during the first and fourth centuries AD.
"This hidden Rome is in front of everyone's eyes but nobody notices it," said Umberto Broccoli, from Rome's city council. "A big part of Rome's history lies underground."
Gianni Alemanno, the mayor of Rome, said the aim of the project was to "avoid Rome being known only for its most important monuments."
The sites have previously been either closed to the public or hard to access.
Guided tours, costing 5 euros per person, will start on May 25 and most sites will remain open through the summer.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
History BTT. I’d go in a heartbeat.
Umberto Broccoli? related to Albert R. Broccoli?
This is right up your - catacomb
Hard to imagine the euro-trash people you see in Rome were once Romans...
Seems to fit right into the current decline of Italy and the rest of the West. Distract the public with gladiators and circuses and debauchery.
Christians in Italy may need to reuse those catacombs before long...
You mean the guys with the waxed eyebrows, the gelled hair, and the designer sunglasses?
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Ave, Caesar, morituri te salutant.
(Didn’t we bury the bodies and cover them up? Why are you telling me this??)
“Are you not entertained? Are you not entertained? Is this not why you are here?”
The jig is up, dollface.
Those About To Die by Daniel P. Mannix
http://www.kurtsaxon.com/those_a_t_d/
Ohman...
We’ve been busted?
*sigh*
” Juvenal wrote bitterly, “The people who have conquered the world now have only two interests—bread and circuses.”
Pretty much nails it.
When the Chinese and/or the Mujahadine administer the coupe de grace, it shall be we who have done it to ourselves.
Hey, there’s not enough forensic evidence left to connect, uh, anyone with the crime. Or alleged crime, rather, there’s no evidence anyone was, uh...
From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia...could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide." -- Abraham Lincoln
*whew*
Boy. That’s a relief...er...I mean...if there WAS a crime...
(So I can sleep, now? I mean, do I have to be a lert?)
*smooch*
G’night!
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