The Colosseum on Tuesday inaugurated an elevator to make the site more accessible for people with mobility difficulties as well as offering panoramic views over the Rome landmark. The new lift, which will allow visitors to reach the highest levels of the ancient amphitheatre, was inaugurated in the presence of Italy's culture minister Gennaro Sangiuliano who said: "From today the Colosseum is even more a World Heritage Site".

The occasion was marked by the Orchestra Italiana del Cinema which performed music by Hans Zimmer from the soundtrack to The Gladiator movie. The idea to install the lift came about after a charity-fundraiser screening of Ridley Scott's blockbuster film in the Colosseum in 2018 when the Orchestra's president Marco Patrignani undertook to finance the project.