Pirates Of The Colosseum? Rome Plans Theme Park
ROME (Reuters) – With the ruins of ancient Rome, the splendour of Vatican City and countless Renaissance art treasures, what does Italy’s capital lack to attract tourists?
The answer, according to the mayor’s office, is a Disneyland-style theme park.
“The model is Euro-Disney in Paris,” said Deputy Mayor Mauro Cutrufo, announcing plans to build a vast ancient Rome theme park just outside the city which he says could be up and running within three to four years.
The park would provide family-friendly attractions to show visitors what life was like in the Rome of 2,000 years ago.
To be built on an as yet unspecified 400-500 hectare (1,000-1,200 acre) site, it would put a Roman twist on rides like Disneyland’s Pirates of the Caribbean, in which visitors float on boats through a fantasy pirate world.
“You would relive scenes from the Colosseum, from ancient Rome, gladiators or maybe Julius Caesar or other things,” a Rome city official told Reuters.
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That sounds cool but modeling it after disney isnt cool.
huh
They wanted to know what the Pope would look like in mouseketeer ears.
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our society is based around money. that shouldn’t be a big surprise by now.
That’s ridiculous ! That would ruin the historical attraction. Kids would cry all day until they got to see a Disney park. My sons friend is a native of Athens, the smoke, smog and tarffic around the Coliseum is beyond bad. They both have shown me pictures-it’s like Bejing, China.