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Colosseum in Rome offers a new tour to get to know the bowels of the amphitheater

Rome, Jul 26 (EFE).- (Camera: Álvaro Padilla) The Colosseum of Rome offers a new tour to its visitors in its hypogeum, the underground galleries, which allows knowing the bowels of the amphitheater and "relive" the competitions during its more than 400 years of activity through the new catwalk, which for the first time crosses the entire amphitheater.FOOTAGE OF THE TOUR OF THE ROMAN COLOSSEUM AND SOUNDBITES OF ALFONSINA RUSSO, DIRECTOR OF THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL PARK OF THE COLOSSEUM.TRANSLATION:1. "Now the public can visit all the underground areas before it was not possible, only the eastern sector, now instead the visitor goes down through the libidinal door, and exit through the triumphal door, travels the entire 200 meters between one door and another, and you can also know the development of the hypogea, what happened. Over the years the hypogea were transformed, although enriched. Now we know that there was very complex machinery, with elevators and mobile platforms in the corridor, taking out bring out scenes that enriched the shows. "2. "We have defined on time, we know of a first phase of 28 elevators throughout the annular perimeter of the arena, which was replaced in the 3rd century AD by 60 elevators in the central corridor. Therefore, there was a great transformation in the taste for games, in the way, they were played, the perimeter moved to the center. "