Colosseum: before restoration feat...

The Colosseum is to be restored by the founder of Tod’s luxury shoe brand Diego della Valle ….
Good news then as this businessman is set to rescue a monument that represents Italy in the world ……


A restoration which will certainly no longer use Roman numerals in the calculation process but presumably take into account the iron pins that hold it together ….


Veronica Scarisbrick once went there with the famed papal Latinist and connoisseur of all things Roman, Carmelite Father Reginald Foster , on a very windy day as you’ll hear in a moment...
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