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At the end of last year the Italian ministry of culture announced that it was seeking proposals for an ambitious new project, with an €18.5m budget: the construction of a retractable wooden floor for the Colosseum. On 2 May the winning design, part of the ministry’s wider strategy of restoring and reorganising Rome’s archaeological sites, was unveiled to much fanfare – as well as criticism from some commentators, who have questioned the project’s price tag and whether the Colosseum needs a floor at all. Of course, the building originally had a wooden floor, covered in sand ( harena in Latin, whence our ‘arena’) to soak up the aftermath of the gladiatorial combats, executions, and beast hunts held there. This floor sat above a complex network of cells, passageways and mechanical hoists: the hypogeum, which is now almost entirely open to the sky. From here combatants, animals and scenery could be hoisted up through the floor and into the arena.

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