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The Anfiteatro Flavio, also know as 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, one of Subject 16's Cluster puzzles and some main and secondary memories as well. 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.
Renaissance
Colosseum Passion Play
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. Once Micheletto was defeated and Pietro saved, a group of mercenaries appeared to help Ezio to escape.
Thrown To The
Ezio ventures to the lower levels of the Colosseo to uncover the conspiracy surrounding the Followers of Romulus and to continue his search for the shrines to Romulus. Upon arriving, Ezio makes his way through a decrepit corridor and soon encounters an individual sitting stationary on a chair. As Ezio reaches out to the man, he is revealed to be a Follower of Romulus, swiping his dagger at Ezio and smashing the chair against the wall. A voice bellows down from a raised platform further down the corridor, a leader dressed in a jubilee costume orders a group of followers to kill Ezio.
Defeating the attackers, Ezio is confronted by the individual who ordered his death. The man denies Ezio's demand for answers and gives chase through a section of the Colosseo, eventually arriving at a crowded Jubilee. Upon discovering the leader hidden among the crowd, Ezio chases him to another large corridor.
Jumping on a horse, the leader makes another attempt at an escape but is soon followed by Ezio, who commandeers a horse of his own. After a short chase sequence, the pair eventually arrive at another room filled with Followers of Romulus. Ezio defeats his attackers and assassinates the leader. Performing a leap of faith Ezio arrives at Juno's Temple and enters the shrine to Romulus, claiming a Scroll of Romulus and the third key of six. He then leaves the temple and returns to Rome.
A Seed
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.
Modern Times
Retrieval of the Apple
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.[1]
- 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.
- There is a thieves mission located on the Colosseo. In this memory, Ezio must finish a race that begins in the top of the Colosseo and ends by jumping from the view point.
- The Colosseo is the most expensive landmark that Ezio can buy.
Gallery
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Artwork from inside the Colosseum.
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Ezio on the Colosseum. -
Ezio rescuing Pietro from the Colosseum.
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Artwork from one of the Colosseums ledges
Videos
thumb|300px|left|Walkthrough of this Lair of Romulus.