For a lucky case, the best preserved area of \u200b\u200bthe Circus Maximus - the most famous monument, imitated and plundered 's Ancient Rome - The "Curva Sud" . It is under the semi-circle facing the chariot Appia launched a mad rush by the charioteers, having to stop to bend sharply around the "meta" South, came into contact: between clashing wheels, neighing of horses, cracking whips, which echoed the cries and the "oooh!" of the nobles and the people thronged the auditorium. The excavations began in December, however, have brought to light walls confirming that the noise of 150 thousand fans were not the prerogative of the days of "Ludi Magni." Sounds of pots, coins jingling, cries of sellers, cries of prostitutes rang every day in "tabernae" found by digging beyond the pillars of the remaining steps. "There were bands that are pale hooligans of today," says Maria Letizia Buonfiglio, by John Caruso and other archaeologists of the local Superintendent, is working with the remains of the sports and religion was born, legend has it, with the races Romulus wanted by the party that ended with the rape of the Sabine.
"In just 50 inches of soil have found 130 coins that, once cataloged, we can say a lot about life in this part of the circus," adds Buonfiglio. The actions by the City Council have so far mostly to the re-discovery of finds buried after excavation of the thirties, when the archaeologists had to stop the media auditorium "being below the bleachers and the track flooded by water seepage. And now that were freed from the earth the pillars, the flagstones of the busy street with arcades, the trough that served as latrines and sewer Vespasiani, you can rebuild the close connection between the "tabernae" external and present within the structure of ' old circus, like some modern sports facilities, function as a meeting place even on weekdays.
The biggest circus, the fall of the empire was abandoned and used for irrigated orchards and mills, warehouses and then developed in the nineteenth century with a gasometer, demolished since 1911, and then cemented by the pillars in the Fascist (also later killed) exposure on the mineral and textiles, and finally, and we are today, generously granted for street demonstrations, military parades, green concerts, arranged on plates that are several feet above the runway where it's charioteers were battling for running 7 times around the two obelisks.
The "curve south" has been spared from the crowds of today but also forgotten. Archaeologists are now willing to go ahead with the research, knowing that you can not get to share because it is under "marrana. But meanwhile there is to clearing the taverns huddled at the circus, to be secured paths that led to the lower tier, reserved for nobles, priests and knights , as well as covers of the stairs leading to the survivors 'popular' . With what money? 'For the three million already pledged - explains the City Councillor for Culture, Dino Gasperini - a resolution to add three million 600 thousand euro and that will end up research, complete the renovations, prepare an educational and a new enlightenment. " The curve south of the Circus Maximus as an archaeological site will eventually be visited.
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