Colosseo

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Il Colosseo (English: The Colosseum) is one of the most famous landmarks of Rome, and is featured in Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood as the location of a Lair of Romulus and one of Subject 16's Cluster puzzles. Construction of the Colosseo began between 70 - 72 AD and finished in 80 AD. During the Borgia family's rule over Rome, the Colosseo became dilapidated and began to crumble.

The Colosseo is where the Passion play is held, as the crosses displayed there are used for the actors. Micheletto attended the play as one of the actors in an attempt to kill another actor, Pietro Rossi, upon the order of Cesare Borgia. However, the plan was foiled as Ezio Auditore disguised himself and his Assassin apprentices as actors, and caused a riot in the arena.

After killing Cesare Borgia in Viana, Ezio hid the Apple of Eden in a vault underneath the Colosseo. The modern-day Assassins later discovered the location of the vault via the Animus 2.0.

By 2012, it appears that the modern day Italian government has begun to reconstruct the Colosseo, due to the number of cranes and added structures in the background. The area under the Colosseo - an underground location that used to house the gladiators and transport them up to the arena of the Colosseo - had been excavated. To gain access to the vault, Desmond needed to traverse a tricky maze of scaffolding and broken stone.

Trivia

• The Colosseo is elliptical (oval-shaped) in real life, but it was made circular for the game, as devising shadows for different sides of the buildings would have been a "nightmare" for Ubisoft.
• The Colosseo is one of the landmarks that Ezio can purchase after destroying the Borgia Tower in that area.
• There are many normal citizens on the upper levels of the Colosseo, although it is unknown how they got up there. If any of the citizens are interrupted by Ezio (either through pushing, shoving, or free running next to them), the citizens will start free running down onto the lower platforms of the Colosseo.
• The Colosseo looks bigger and more immense during Desmond's visit than it does in normal gameplay.
• When Desmond enters it, he sees visions of when Ezio visited the Lair of Romulus, fighting the Followers and chasing the Leader on horseback.
• Inside the Lair of Romulus for this location, the Leader that Ezio chases resembles his target in the E3 cinematic for Assassin's Creed II, having similar mask and clothing.
• At the end of the Lair of Romulus mission, there are two statues present. Directly behind them is an elevated platform which is inaccessible unless you run up the wall beside it and wall jump to the platform. Upon closer inspection on the wall at the top of the platform, it is actually the door to the vault where Ezio hides the Apple of Eden and where Desmond finds it in 2012.
• The Colosseo is one of the Territories that can be bought in Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy.

Gallery

• Alternate artwork from inside the Colosseum.
  Alternate artwork from inside the Colosseum.
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  Ezio on the Colosseum.
• Ezio rescuing Pietro from the Colosseum.
  Ezio rescuing Pietro from the Colosseum.

Videos

thumb|300px|left|Walkthrough of this Lair of Romulus.