Over 15,000 square meters of surface, 81 specialists engaged every day including architects, restorers, geologists, physicists, topographers, engineers and workers. With 55,000 hours and 7,000 days of work. Thus the hypogea of the Colosseum, that maze of corridors, arches and passages where the glorious performances of the Flavian amphitheater were prepared, will be back to be visited by the public from tomorrow, thanks to the restoration and commitment of the Tod’s Group.
“A very complex work – explains the director of the Archaeological Park, Alfonsina Russo – whose results are still being studied”, but that stone by stone “testifies to everything that happened under the great arena of the Amphitheater, from its inauguration in ’80 AD until the last show in 523 “. A monument within the monument, which can now be visited along a 160-meter-long serpentine walkway, waiting for that ‘backstage’ of 2000 years ago to return to the dark, as in the past, when the area will be covered with a new arena floor. “That of the Della Valle and Tod’s Group – comments the Minister of Culture Dario Franceschini – is a true act of patronage and liberality, well before the tax advantages of the Art bonus were introduced”.
“To my world, that of companies, large, strong – launches the appeal Andrea Della Valle, president and CEO of the Tod’s Group – I say that it is no longer the time to ask what the Government can do for us, but what we can do for others. We must not miss the train of those who want to get busy and make themselves available to their country “. Started in December 2018, that of the hypogea is the second phase of the interventions foreseen in the project financed by Tod’s, after the works on the facades of the monument, and which now sees the start of a third step with the construction of the reception center.
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