The Secret Coliseum NOBODY Knows About
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2024
- We all know about the ancient world wonder in Rome known as the coliseum - it’s what many point to as the first mega stadium.
But did you know there is a shockingly preserved lime stone arena in Croatia that predates the Coliseum by a full 12 years? And that is still being used for events to this very day?
This was built in 68 AD and it’s still better than the Oakland Coliseum.
Maybe the A’s can relocate to Croatia until the Vegas ballpark is ready?
lol
Only if they’re renamed the Croatian Sensations
lol
We haven't built anything beautiful for ages.
🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷 love my country. Went there on a school trip.
Pola is always be Italian !
@@philmccracken7520 Dream on….with serbs
The amphitheaters in Pula and Verona are absolutely stunning and so underrated. Both are very well preserved aswell
I forgot this isn’t even a History TH-cam channel this guy mostly covers sports arenas.
They played hockey and indoor soccer games at the arena
actually we have 2 amphitheaters in Croatia. the other one is in Solin though that one is completely devastated
Pola is italia , was a gif from USA to Yugoslavia , roman and venetian for more than 2000 years.
Gladiatorial games were possibly the birthplace of professional wrestling; it’s said gladiators would basically pull their punches to have an entertaining fight without seriously injuring each other.
Wrestling was a sport in the Olympic Games in about 750BC. Rome was a tiny village then. Gladiatorial games originated as part of aristocratic Roman funerals.
@@Joanna-il2urthats a different type of wrestling dude. Pro wrestling is fake and scripted. Still very entertaining and people still do crazy stunts and hit each other. The wrestling in 750bc at the games is just regular imo boring wrestling.
There's is an even better preserved roman amphitheatre in verona, with the entire seating area still intact
Fabulous place. Hosts an annual opera festival.
Also in Capua near Naples and at Pompeii and other places in north Africa though some are theatres rather than amphitheatres -Arles and Orange in France
The Verona Amphitheatre is stunning My sisters and I were there in October 2022. Verona is absolutely beautiful.
I’m pretty sure the people of Pula and Croatia have known all about this arena for around 2000 years.
The best preserved arena in the World is the one in Nimes France . It was originally called Nemausus and luckily it was never plundered for stone due to it being used as a fortress and later a village. We went there 30 years ago and it’s amazing .Cheers 😎🥃
Every Romanian knows of Pula 😂😇
There is also a nice coliseum in Verona, Italy.
Ancent Roman history and Sports! Love the mew channel.
I can’t see a venue lasting 400 years today.
Well, with the possible exception of the Baltimore Arena.
There is a stadium I visited in southern France that was built in 90 AD that had similar architecture to the Colosseum but certainly not on that scale. The stadium is in Arles (pronounced Alls), France. It was not as preserved as the one in Croatia, and was actually added on to. It is still used today for concerts and bullfighting (yes, bullfighting in France). It had aluminum seats which ruined the entire aesthetic.
Nobody knows? That's overstatement, imho 🤔
I think I read the big Colosseum in Rome was capable of being flooded for naval battle reenactments!
Yup, and in a case of an emergency, it could be evacuated in 5 minutes.
Why? "Give them bread and circuses, and they will never revolt.” - Juvenal
Though it’s a bit on the small side, it would be a cool venue for a Rammstein show.
I know this because I was there many times. Trump 2024 if we want to preserve the American democracy.
In ancient times Greeks had a building called Stadion, also Theatron. Colloseum is an Amphitheater not a stadium.
Meanwhile, the coliseum of Verona, Italy is the one most intact and used.
In Italy. There are others.
nobody knows? Many people know! I've been there about 40 years ago as a child.
Collecting rainwater in reservoirs high up and sprinkling it onto the spectators for cooling. What a brilliant invention.
Presumably they would wait for the sun to be back to cool spectators.
The Colosseum in Rome even had an early version of a retractable roof, where sailors operated a pulley system to provide shade overhead on hot days. The Romans were incredible engineers.
Rumors has it that Stanus Kroenkenus threatened to move the games to Lus Angelus. 🤷
Why assume NOBODY knows if many know? 🤔
This is awesome
There are also well preserved coliseums in Nimes ( France) and El Jem ( Tunisia).
Quite possibly the most ignorant title of any TH-cam video ever… no easy feat.
How do you live with the embarrassment?
It's like some tourist first heard about it and felt as if they had to share this "secret" with the world. My sense from the narration is these guys aren't aware of Verona and Tunisia either. The Romans built stadiums and bridges wherever they went. It was just kind of their thing.
Better than Oakland colosseum
The Pula Arena is truly magnificent. I was there with my sisters in June 2019.
We were in Pula in 2015.
Good video
Secret?
I know.
Cool
Been there, it was pretty cool. They had a theatrical gladiator show in the evening.
Very interesting. If I ever get to Croatia I would definitely visit the arena.
So both this arena and the Colosseum were precursors to the Home Depot 😂😂😂
Roman Coliseum, aka Godzilla's bed
At 0:54 - notice the football (soccer) pitch in the sea (bottom left).
That is for water polo
That is so cool
there's another very well preserved amphitheater in Tunisia. And anyway, the region with Pola has always been Italy, (before that, Venetian and, partially, Austrian) till the end of the WWII
It's just stupid to say that nobody knows about pula arena, it's one of the most known arenas in the world, alongside another one in italy and one in france.
Pula film festoval is held there for at least 70 years it's a main croatian film festival and was once main yugoslavian film festival, even mussolini wanted to relocate it to italy, as it was the only one with all four architectual features preserved.
Another completely stupid thing to say is that limestone was scarce, literally everything is limestone there, it's everywhere around, it's just that it was already quaried and cut to size and shape, and right there already, but otherwise it's everywhere around.