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Colosseum
Icon building colosseum
Colosseum
Base Cost Icon main production 400
Era Medieval Era
Adjacency Icon district entertainment complex Entertainment Complex
Placement  •  Desert
 •  Grasslands
 •  Plains
 •  Snow
 •  Tundra
Provides +2 Icon Culture Culture
+3 Icon Amenities Amenities from entertainment
Technology Icon civic games recreation Games and Recreation Civic
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The Colosseum is a wonder in Civilization VI.

Description[ | ]

The Colosseum's Icon Culture Culture and Icon Amenities Amenities are extended to each city center within 6 tiles. Must be built on flat land adjacent to an Entertainment Complex district.

Quote[ | ]

While the Colosseum stands, Rome shall stand; when the Colosseum falls, Rome shall fall; when Rome falls, the world shall fall.
~ Saint Bede

Notes[ | ]

The Colosseum is removed if the game started after the Renaissance Era.

Historical context[ | ]

The Flavian Amphitheater, better known as the "Coliseum" lies in the center of Rome. Construction began during the reign of Emperor Vespasian, c. 72 AD, funded by the spoils from the Jewish Second Temple after the fall of Jerusalem during the First Jewish-Roman War. Built of concrete and stone, it is the largest amphitheater ever built, and one of the great wonders of ancient architecture and engineering. It could hold between 50 and 80 thousand spectators to watch gladiatorial matches, animal hunts, mass executions, and more. By the time medieval Christianity had taken root, it had been repurposed to house low-rent apartments, workshops, quarters for a religious order, a quarry and a Christian shrine. Although knocked about by earthquakes and pillaged by stone-robbers, the Coliseum is still pretty impressive two millennia after the inaugural gladiatorial slaughter.

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