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ITALIAN CON ARTIST JAILED FOR BUILDING 'WORLD'S OLDEST AND LARGEST AMPHITHEATRE' TWENTY YEARS AGO
https://www.euronews.com/culture/2026/07/27/italian-con-artist-jailed-for-building-worlds-oldest-and-largest-amphitheatre-20-years-ago
In Italy, a structure promoted for years as an "ancient Roman amphitheatre" has turned out to be a fake, constructed recently using modern materials.
A man has been jailed in Italy for fraud after charging tourists €40 to visit a fake Roman amphitheatre he built himself twenty years ago.
Franco Malosso 'von Rosenfranz', 69, claimed to have discovered the site, known as the Berico Maritime Amphitheatre in the north-eastern city of Vicenza, after a landslide in 2005.
According to Italy's Correiere della Sera, Malosso told visitors the site was one of the world’s "oldest and largest amphitheatres" and dated back to AD 393.
https://www.euronews.com/culture/2026/07/27/italian-con-artist-jailed-for-building-worlds-oldest-and-largest-amphitheatre-20-years-ago
In Italy, a structure promoted for years as an "ancient Roman amphitheatre" has turned out to be a fake, constructed recently using modern materials.
A man has been jailed in Italy for fraud after charging tourists €40 to visit a fake Roman amphitheatre he built himself twenty years ago.
Franco Malosso 'von Rosenfranz', 69, claimed to have discovered the site, known as the Berico Maritime Amphitheatre in the north-eastern city of Vicenza, after a landslide in 2005.
According to Italy's Correiere della Sera, Malosso told visitors the site was one of the world’s "oldest and largest amphitheatres" and dated back to AD 393.
