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ANCIENT ROME IN 3D
"Rewind Rome” at the Coliseum

3D Gladiators at Rewind Rome photo Experience Rome as it was in the 3rd Century when gladiators battled to the death in the Roman arena. A visit to Rome today will find streets of fast moving traffic, many of the cars racing down the Via Imperiali around the ancient Roman Coliseum On corners of the city you’ll find excavations underway, unearthing ancient stones of the ruins of the city on the Tiber, but newly opened for tourist visitors to the Coliseum, you can now take a step back in a virtual world experience into the city as it once existed in the “Rewind Rome” 3d simulation giant screen and walk through exhibit at the Teatro Colosseo, located across the street from the stony ruins of the original.

Ancient Rome photoAt the Rewind Rome exhibit, a chubby, toga wearing guide named “Sapientus” takes you on a 30 minute journey back into the Rome ruled by Emperor Maxentius in 310 AD. The program is based on the research and graphic technology of three separate US universities and the Italian film studio of Cinecitta using motion capture animation to recreate a realistic picture of life in ancient Rome, the largest city complex of the ancient world.

Wearing 3d glasses and listening on headphones (in eight available languages) you’ll follow Sapientus through the great Roman Forum, the teaming streets of Rome with over 60,000 virtual characters among the markets and grime, sit in on a session of the Roman Senate, and a teasing look at virgins of the Temple of Vespa. Take an ancient elevator ride down into the underworks of the Coliseum to see the lions waiting for their turn to feast on the day’s hapless victims condemned to be the entertainment for the plebeian crowds in the great arena. Watch the action of the Gladiators battling on the dusty arena floor as the crowds cheer above and the bad guy of the arena, Bestia, thrusts his sword at you, before the crowd calls for a thumbs up (sideways actually) or down from the Emperor. The cost is 10 euro per plebeian head, though I'm not sure how much that is in Romana Imperiali denaries and sestertia.© Bargain Travel Europe

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