The Coliseum

The Coliseum has been a Roman landmark for nearly 2000 years but real conservation did not begin until the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. A law was passed in 1743 forbidding any further removal of stone. The east and west ends of the building were reinforced to stop them collapsing. But it was not until the nineteenth century that the first systematic excavations of the building began under Carlos Fea.Read more