{"id":556,"date":"2019-10-03T14:03:30","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T14:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/enqodle.in\/colosseum\/?p=556"},"modified":"2020-11-06T07:36:37","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T07:36:37","slug":"the-earthquake-of-1349","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colosseum.info\/fr\/the-earthquake-of-1349\/","title":{"rendered":"The Earthquake of 1349"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Italy is a country prone to earthquakes<\/b>.\u00a0 Throughout the centuries the many tremors that have hit the city of Rome have taken with them parts of the grand edifices of ancient Empire.\u00a0 The Colosseum has suffered greatly throughout the centuries, dramatically altering its appearance.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

After the Flavian Amphitheatre or Colosseum was no longer used as a stadium, it was left abandoned; over the years it was stripped of marble and stone seats, statues along with columns and capitals.\u00a0 Perhaps the most ruinous of the looting was the removal of the iron clamps that once held the grand arched facade of the building in place.\u00a0 <\/span>Over 300 tonnes of iron were dug out<\/b> during the middle ages which left the building and particularly the large blocks of travertine unstable.\u00a0 Later came the earthquakes over successive centuries.<\/span><\/p>\n

The \u201cbig one\u201d that caused the most severe damage was in 1349. The earthquake, considered one of the most catastrophic events along the Apennines, (estimated as a 6.7-7 magnitude) was felt in the Lazio, Molise and Abruzzo Regions. The reach of this devastating earthquake was vast, the city of L\u2019Aquila was almost entirely destroyed and the impact was sorely felt in Rome.\u00a0 The earthquake caused the outer ring on the southside of the Colosseum (the exit side today) to collapse. The massive impact that the earthquake had on the Colosseum was written about by a poet of the time, Francesco Petrarch.\u00a0 \u201c\u2026the massive building that so amazes the pilgrims fell among the old houses abandoned by the citizens\u201d.\u00a0 From the second half of the 14<\/span>th<\/span> century this pile of rubble, also known as \u2018the thigh of the Colosseum\u2019 was used as a quarry for travertine until the 1700s.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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SO WHERE DID THE COLOSSEUM END UP?<\/span><\/p>\n