The city of Rome has been capable of fixing their favorite stadium for a long time, but they don't seem to want to. They just leave it sitting there like a car on blocks in their front yard, neither repairing it nor disposing of it.
The city of Rome has been capable of fixing their favorite stadium for a long time, but they don't seem to want to. They just leave it sitting there like a car on blocks in their front yard, neither repairing it nor disposing of it.
That's a great question.
If Rome had a billionaire team owner whining about a new stadium, they'd definitely build him a new Crypto.com Colosseum.
and that tower where they sell pizzas. they cant prop it back up?
I’ve not been to the Roman Coliseum, but I did visit the first Olympic stadium (1896) in Athens two years ago. It was cool. Probably make more money off of the old coliseum than they would a new stadium anyhow.
At least they've stopped tearing it down to use for building materials.
The Tour Guy wrote:
That's a great question.
I guess American tourists like this stuff:
Well, we'd like it more if they fixed it up so you could watch a game or a meet there, and get some wine and pizza from the concessions
Have you been in Rome lately? Very sad. Their beautiful Coliseum is falling apart and Augustus, quite frankly, isn’t doing anything about. It’s a real shame because no one wants to see gladiators any longer. Because of the crumbling stadium. If I were emperor, I would build the best Coliseum! It would be so great. People would want to see my beautiful Coliseum, that I can tell you. We would have the best gladiators and the most deadly wild animals! The wildest deadly animals. And the Christians wouldn’t like my deadly wild beasts but, the ratings would be so big and the crowds so large that people would beg me, with tears in their eyes, “Sir! Can I get in and see the deadly animals eat wild Christians?”.
I would let them in! Do you know who else I would let in? Caligula! Have you heard about this guy, Caligula? Very young. Very, very smart! Almost crazy smart, he is. Loves and respects women almost as bigot as I do. Might also invite Nero. Great musician, that Nero! They say he plays the fiddle as good as Charlie Daniels. That’s what people are saying. He’s obsessed with the fiddle! Caligula and Nero. Could you imagine that party? Maybe on a private island? I hear they like to party!
But, so sad what is happening to the Coliseum!
They needed a "Build Back Better" plan, because it has worked so well here in America.
It's because an empire collapsed and by the time people were able to put energy into fixing it, it was deemed an ancient relic and would be devalued by any renovations?
Too expensive to bring it up to code. And there was a plan to restore it to its original condition, but the plan was also to bring back feeding Christians to wild animals. That got people all bent out of shape.
They could’ve fixed the Colosseum, but the additional demands posed by the Collosseum proved too much for their engineering and construction skills, so they had to take the L on that one.
leaning wrote:
and that tower where they sell pizzas. they cant prop it back up?
if that's the best they could build 1000 years later, it's just as well they didn't try to refurbish the stadium.
Thank goodness Nike isn't based in Rome. They would bulldoze it, build a new stadium on the site, move the Tower of Piza (renamed the Bowerman Tower) to stand beside it for no particular reason, and slap Prefontaine's face and a huge Swoosh on it.
No need. Check out the Stadio delle Terme di Caracalla.
Why should they?
You can see a Colosseum in Los Angeles and if you need more Roman (not the male order stuff) you can drive four hours to Caesars Palace in Vegas.
Too busy dodging taxes and living off make work government jobs
It is almost as bad as New York letting the Statue of Liberty oxidize to green. A disgrace really. Should polish that thing up and make it respectable.
are they just lazy or what wrote:
The city of Rome has been capable of fixing their favorite stadium for a long time, but they don't seem to want to. They just leave it sitting there like a car on blocks in their front yard, neither repairing it nor disposing of it.
Maybe they couldn’t get the requisite number of African slaves or Mexican immigrants willing to do hard labor?
Alice Island wrote:
It is almost as bad as New York letting the Statue of Liberty oxidize to green. A disgrace really. Should polish that thing up and make it respectable.
Naw.
Las Vegas has a Statue of Liberty, too.