The evocative nighttime visits to the Colosseum are back. Starting Tuesday, May 13, the Archaeological Park reopens its gates in the evening hours with the initiative A Night at the Colosseum, offering the public a chance to explore the Flavian Amphitheater in a unique atmosphere. The guided tour, lasting about an hour, winds through the first order of the building, the arena floor and the basement, re-enacting the daily life of spectators and protagonists of ancient Roman spectacles - from hunts (venationes) to the famous gladiator fights (munera). Tours will be held every Tuesday and Thursday, from 8 p.m. to midnight, with last admission at 10:30 p.m., and will be restricted to small groups of up to 25 people per shift. The tour kicks off from the North fornix, the ancient imperial entrance, where there is a focus on the stucco decorations and the overall view of the cavea from the arena floor. From here, it continues into the basement to visit the new permanent exhibition Performances in the Colosseum Arena. The protagonists, curated by Alfonsina Russo, Federica Rinaldi and Barbara Nazzaro. The exhibit preserves some elements of the temporary exhibition Gladiators in the Arena, enriching them with new technologies and exhibits. These include a holographic projection of gladiators marching in the eastern cryptoporticus (made by Katatexilux), a second-century mosaic with hunting scenes, graffiti engraved on the cavea steps, ancient lifting systems, oil lamps and models of hoists. Also on display are faithful replicas of the armor of the main gladiatorial types (reziario, secutor, thracian, myrmillone, provocator and oplomachus) and a 3-D copy of a relief from Coo, now preserved in Trieste, depicting a duel between a reziario and a secutor accompanied by a Greek inscription referring to the dissolution of the auctoramentum, the pact with the deity that bound the gladiator to fight until death. New for 2025 is the presence of the Gallus gladiator's head, on loan from the Archaeological Museum at Verona's Roman Theater: an extraordinary stone sculpture dating from the first half of the first century A.D., originally from Verona's amphitheater. The visit concludes with a nighttime walk along the boardwalk through the underground passages to the western maneuvering chamber, giving visitors a novel and fascinating perspective of Rome's iconic monument.