Visitors to the Italian capital can now visit and tread a hidden walkway in the Colosseum used by Roman emperors to safely and discreetly travel to the pulvinar, their reserved honour box directly above the arena.
The passage, constructed somewhere between 90 A.D. and 98 A.D., allowed emperor’s to get to their seats without having to use the main entrances, the vomitoria, through which the masses would spew forth into the Colosseum.
