Tourists Paid €40 to Visit This ‘Ancient Roman Amphitheatre’ – but It Was Built in the 2000s
An Italian man has been jailed after building a fake Roman amphitheatre near Vicenza and charging tourists to visit the supposedly ancient site.
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