Colosseo

The Anfiteatro Flavio, also know as Il Colosseo (English: The Colosseum) is one of the most famous landmarks of Rome, and is featured in Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood as the location of a Lair of Romulus, one of Subject 16's Cluster puzzles and some main and secondary memories as well. Construction of the Colosseum began in 72 AD and finished in 80 AD. During the Borgia family's rule over Rome, the Colosseo became delipidated and began to crumble.

Colosseum Passion Play
The Colosseo is where the Passion play was held, as the crosses displayed there were used for the actors. Micheletto attended the play as one of the actors in an attempt to kill another actor, Pietro Rossi, upon the order of Cesare Borgia. However, the plan was foiled when Ezio Auditore disguised himself and his Assassin apprentices as actors, and caused a riot in the arena. Once Micheletto was defeated and Pietro saved, a group of mercenaries appeared to help Ezio to escape.

Seeing Red
In an attempt to regain power, Cesare Borgia called a meeting of Cardinals at the Colosseo. The Cardinals informed him that they had ellected Guiliano della Rovere to the Papacy. The meeting was then cut short when Ezio Auditore used the Apple of Eden to further weaken Cesare's support.

Thrown To The Wolves
Ezio ventured to the lower levels of the Colosseo to uncover the conspiracy surrounding the Followers of Romulus and to continue his search for the shrines to Romulus. Upon arriving, Ezio made his way through a decrepit corridor and then encounterd an individual sitting on a chair. As Ezio reached out to the man, he flung his chair across the room and revealed himself to be a Follower of Romulus, swiping his dagger at Ezio. Just then, a voice bellowed down from a raised platform further down the corridor, a leader dressed in a jubilee costume ordered a group of followers to kill Ezio.



Defeating the attackers, Ezio was confronted by the individual who ordered his death. The man denies Ezio's demand for answers and flees through a section of the Colosseo, eventually arriving at a crowded Jubilee. Upon discovering the leader hidden among the crowd, Ezio chased him to another large corridor.

Jumping on a horse, the leader made another attempt at an escape but was soon followed by Ezio, who commandeered a horse of his own. After a short chase sequence, the pair eventually arrived at another room filled with Followers of Romulus. Ezio defeated his attackers and assassinated the leader. Performing a leap of faith Ezio arrived at Juno's Temple and entered the shrine to Romulus, claiming a Scroll of Romulus and one of the keys to the Armour of Brutus. He then left the temple and returned to Rome.

A Seed
A year before Cesare Borgia's death in Viana, Ezio hid the Apple of Eden in a vault underneath the Colosseo.

Retrieval of the Apple
The modern-day Assassins have discovered that the secret hiding-place for a Piece of Eden may be solved by visiting the Colosseum. Desmond and his allies hurry to the site after finding the 'password' to open a theorized vault below the ancient structure. By 2012, it appears that the modern day Italian government had begun to reconstruct the Colosseo, due to the number of cranes and added structures in the background. The area under the Colosseo - an underground location that used to house the gladiators and transport them up to the arena of the Colosseo - had been excavated. To gain access to the vault, Desmond needed to traverse a tricky maze of scaffolding and broken stone.

Trivia

 * The Colosseo is elliptical (oval-shaped) in real life, but it was made circular for the game, as devising shadows for different sides of the buildings would have been a "nightmare" for Ubisoft.
 * The Colosseo is one of the landmarks that Ezio can purchase after destroying the Borgia Tower in that area.
 * There are many normal citizens on the upper levels of the Colosseo, although it is unknown how they got up there. If any of the citizens are interrupted by Ezio (either through pushing, shoving, or free running next to them), the citizens will start free running down onto the lower platforms of the Colosseo.
 * In the E3 trailer and when Ezio had hidden the Sixth Apple in the Colosseo, the floor isn't present.
 * The Colosseo looks bigger and more immense during Desmond's visit than it does in normal gameplay.
 * When Desmond enters it, he sees visions of when Ezio visited the Lair of Romulus, fighting the Followers and chasing the Leader on horseback.
 * Inside the Lair of Romulus for this location, the Leader that Ezio chases resembles his target in the E3 cinematic for Assassin's Creed II, having similar mask and clothing.
 * At the end of the Lair of Romulus mission, there are two statues present. Directly behind them is an elevated platform which is inaccessible unless you run up the wall beside it and wall jump to the platform. Upon closer inspection on the wall at the top of the platform, it is actually the door to the vault where Ezio hides the Apple of Eden and where Desmond finds it in 2012.
 * The Colosseo is one of the Territories that can be bought in Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy.
 * There is a thieves mission located on the Colosseo. In this memory, Ezio must finish a race that begins in the top of the Colosseo and ends by jumping from the view point.
 * The Colosseo is the most expensive landmark that Ezio can buy.

Videos
thumb|300px|left|Walkthrough of this Lair of Romulus.