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Evening Standard
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Lydia Chantler-Hicks

Gym instructor who carved name into Colosseum claims he ‘didn’t know its antiquity’ in apology letter

A tourist who carved his and his girlfriend’s names into the side of the Colosseum with a key is reported to have apologised to the city of Rome, claiming he did not know the building’s ancient history.

The man - who has been named in reports as gym instructor Ivan Dimitrov - was filmed engraving a message reading “Ivan+Hayley 23” on the Colosseum on the afternoon of June 30.

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