Colosseum's Tod's-Funded Facade Restoration Unveiled After Three Years
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCEHappened as dated: WWD[2] reports the event of 1 July 2016 at which Diego Della Valle and Prime Minister Matteo Renzi marked the completion of the first part of the restoration, begun in September 2013. The whole project was then expected to run to 2020-2022.
A three-year, Tod's-funded restoration of the Colosseum's facade - the first phase of a longer project - wrapped up with a ceremony attended by Italy's prime minister, revealing the monument's stone cleaned of two millennia of grime.