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. During the time when the Borgia family ruled 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 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 discovered the location of the vault via the Animus 2.0. Immediately after discovering the apple's location the modern day assassin's set to work figuring out how to open to the "verbal password" door which leads into the vault containing the apple. Shawn discovers that the numbers 1419, 1420, and 1421, which are all inscribed on the wall at the top of the stairs leading down into the assassin's crypt in Monteriggioni are actually related to three passages in Exodus. After making the connection Sean derives that the verbal password Desmond must say to gain access to the vault under Il Colosseo is simply "seventy-two." It is later assumed that it is not coincidence that the day the modern assassin's attempt to retrieve the apple falls exactly 72 days before the launch of a powerful Abstergo Industries satellite, which symbolized the end of the world.

By 2012, it appears that the modern day Italian government has begun to reconstruct the Colosseum, due to the number of cranes and added structures in the background. The area under the Colosseum which used to house the gladiators and transport them to the floor of the Colosseum, which was previously underground, had been excavated. To gain access to the vault Desmond needed to get through a tricky "Lair of Romulus"-like maze of jumps and grabs.

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 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 in 2012 when Desmond visited it than in Ezio's time.

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.