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Rome to open gladiators training ground to public
The Telegraph ^ | 5/21/2009 | Nick Squires In Rome

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 ...


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1 posted on 05/21/2009 3:53:13 PM PDT by bruinbirdman
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History BTT. I’d go in a heartbeat.


2 posted on 05/21/2009 3:55:43 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: bruinbirdman

Umberto Broccoli? related to Albert R. Broccoli?


3 posted on 05/21/2009 3:57:33 PM PDT by rahbert
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To: SunkenCiv

This is right up your - catacomb


4 posted on 05/21/2009 4:00:16 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: bruinbirdman

Hard to imagine the euro-trash people you see in Rome were once Romans...


5 posted on 05/21/2009 4:14:47 PM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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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.


6 posted on 05/21/2009 4:25:56 PM PDT by Mack Truck (Obama is still hiding everything about his own background from the American people.)
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To: Mack Truck

Christians in Italy may need to reuse those catacombs before long...


7 posted on 05/21/2009 4:37:46 PM PDT by CondorFlight (I)
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Hard to imagine the euro-trash people you see in Rome were once Romans...

You mean the guys with the waxed eyebrows, the gelled hair, and the designer sunglasses?

8 posted on 05/21/2009 4:45:02 PM PDT by conservative cat (America, you have been PWNED!)
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To: Red_Devil 232; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...

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9 posted on 05/21/2009 5:36:50 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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Ave, Caesar, morituri te salutant.


10 posted on 05/21/2009 5:56:51 PM PDT by Perdogg (Cheney-Palin 2012)
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To: SunkenCiv

(Didn’t we bury the bodies and cover them up? Why are you telling me this??)


11 posted on 05/21/2009 5:57:07 PM PDT by Monkey Face (Stop repeat offenders. Don't re-elect them!)
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To: bruinbirdman

“Are you not entertained? Are you not entertained? Is this not why you are here?”

12 posted on 05/21/2009 6:03:00 PM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: Monkey Face

The jig is up, dollface.


13 posted on 05/21/2009 7:00:18 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: Perdogg

Those About To Die by Daniel P. Mannix
http://www.kurtsaxon.com/those_a_t_d/


14 posted on 05/21/2009 7:00:57 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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Ohman...
We’ve been busted?

*sigh*


15 posted on 05/21/2009 7:16:38 PM PDT by Monkey Face (Stop repeat offenders. Don't re-elect them!)
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To: SunkenCiv

” 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.


16 posted on 05/21/2009 7:22:28 PM PDT by RedStateRocker (Deport all illegals, abolish the IRS, DEA and ATF.)
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To: Monkey Face

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...


17 posted on 05/21/2009 7:30:54 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: RedStateRocker
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

18 posted on 05/21/2009 7:33:28 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: SunkenCiv

*whew*
Boy. That’s a relief...er...I mean...if there WAS a crime...


19 posted on 05/21/2009 7:39:15 PM PDT by Monkey Face (Stop repeat offenders. Don't re-elect them!)
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To: SunkenCiv

(So I can sleep, now? I mean, do I have to be a lert?)
*smooch*

G’night!


20 posted on 05/21/2009 7:41:36 PM PDT by Monkey Face (Stop repeat offenders. Don't re-elect them!)
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