Welcome to another episode of Ultimate Bucket List,
and on today's show I show you around Italy's mega stadium that's home to four professional
teams. [Music]
The Stadio Olimpico. The venue for the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome, is now a modern stadium
that's home to the Italian national football and Rugby Union teams, and it's a world famous
iconic Stadium. But it's also home to two of the nastiest rivals in world football.
SS Lazio and AS Roma. These two Serie A sides contest the Derby Della Capitale,
and to say that they hate each other is a massive understatement. Trouble, violence and deaths
between both sets of fans is fairly commonplace, and this is not a rivalry for the faint-hearted.
The stadium itself originally built in 1927 now holds a capacity crowd of 72,698 - but
what's it actually like in real life? Well, when you arrive at the stadium
you'll notice that it's part of a wider sporting complex. There's many other stadiums
literally dotted around. So for example this one; the athletics track, which is
lined with these marble statues. How very Roman! To get to the stadium tours you'll need to go to
the south side of the stadium, and if you haven't already bought tickets you'll need to do it here
at the ticket office, which is located at Curva Sud. Once you've bought your ticket of course,
the stadium tour starts here at the southwest corner of the stadium, where
it says Stadio Olimpico Tour. So you'd have to be a complete idiot in order to not find this place.
Once you've all been security checked this is where your tour begins.
The first port of call is the bus tunnel. This is where the buses transporting players will
arrive into the stadium. It doesn't sound very interesting, but inside the tunnel
you'll have various game worn shirts of the various athletes that have played here.
Football shirts, rugby shirts, hey you've even got Usain Bolt's vest here. There's some
good opportunities with Francesco Totti’s shirt. Booooooooo! And URGH! What's that doing here?!?!
You'll then arrive at this video presentation board. It will show
your short video as to what events actually happen here.
From the Olympics to athletics, concerts and obviously football and rugby matches. But
once the video is finished, the screens raise up revealing the museum inside the stadium.
Now you'll get a little bit of a short talk as to the history of the actual stadium itself, some of
the most important events that have gone on here, you'll get to walk around the press conference
bit. As you can see here they're actually made of LED screens and they'll change depending on
which team is actually playing there, so it makes for a nice photo and video opportunity.
There's some pretty cool artefacts on display here, such as balls from Italia 90, original
1960 paraphernalia, various memorabilia belonging to players, and the first ever Scudetta trophy.
Oh this is a nice shirt who does this belong to? Booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
Anyway once you've finished booing anything with Giorgio Chiellini's name on it, you'll
walk through the stadium and into the AS Roma dressing room. You can immediately tell it’s that,
because it's decked out in Roman red and gold. nd the dressing room itself actually pretty nice I do
like Roma's shirts, I do like the bucket seats here, and it's quite a sizable changing room.
Ah Nemanja Matic, what a player! And I definitely had to have my picture taken with this man.
It's definitely a nice changing room, but we don't get to spend all that much time
in here before we’re whisked away into the referee's dressing room.
This is probably the nicest referee changing room I've ever been to. They get
their own TV screens even their own little office, with this guy watching over them.
Next is the middle dressing room which is home to the Italian national teams.
So it's very similar to the AS Roma dressing room, albeit in varying shades of blue. But it's pretty
much the same size, and once again you can have photo and video opportunities with the shirts.
I've always liked Italy's kits. Campioni de Europa, boy these guys are really rubbing it now.
Next up is the SS Lazio dressing room, and as you can probably imagine it's pretty much a
carbon copy of the AS Roma dressing room, just in varying shades of blue, and in the north
side of the stadium. And again, you get some various photo and video opportunities here.
You'll be whisked out of the dressing room and into the tunnel area. And the one thing I like
about this place is that one half is permanently red for Roma and one half is permanently blue for
SS Lazio. But I'm pretty sure that they can customise that to any colour they want. The
tunnel area is a misnomer because it's a big giant room, and to access the field you'll need to climb
these stairs. And once you do, you'll quickly realize that the stadium is pretty much all one
big giant tier. It kind of reminds me of Hampden Park a little bit, albeit a little bit nicer.
AS Roma permanently sits in the south side of the stadium, whereas SS Lazio permanently
sits in the north side. There's a small display indicating what sports are actually played here,
but overall the views from the field are pretty nice.
Once you're done having your pictures taken at pitch level, it's time to see where the
rich people sit. So if you're rich enough, you can afford these seats where you get TV screens
built on the back of the seat so you can watch instant replays. If you're super rich you'll sit
in these multi-coloured seats and this pretty much offers you the best view of the entire stadium.
But if you're a super mega rich VIP, you'll sit right here with your own TV screens,
heated leather seats and you even get a mini bar. Oh let's check out and see if
they've left us any beers and … ah that's a shame! You'll then be shown into a Vorporate Hospitality
box, and to be honest it's okay. I've seen better, I've definitely seen a lot worse.
But there's quite a few artefacts on display from the various athletes that are performed here.
It's up the stairs we go, this looks like a restaurant and … oh wait she just told us
that's the end of the tour. Boy that was quick! Just in case you're starving because you've not
eaten for the last hour, you can buy food and drink here. But if you don't want to do that
they'll let you out into the stadium shop, where you can purchase a plethora of AS Roma, Lazio,
Italy National Football and rugby merchandise. And you can even have green screen photos taken of you
here. There's plenty of stuff to buy in this shop and you can even have your shirts customized if
you want to. But after that you're basically let out of the exit and that's pretty much it.
So I've just completed my tour here at the Stadio Olimpico and I've got to say it; was possibly the
shortest tour I've ever done in my life. Literally from start to finish it took about 45 minutes.
Even though you got to see a lot of stuff, you don't get to see it for very long. But guys if
you are a Lazio or Roma fan, or if you just like Stadium Tours, this does come highly recommended.
So Ninh, whereabouts in the hierarchy of your stadium tours does this go? It's somewhere in
the middle, the only real criticism as mentioned in the video is that it seems a little bit rushed.
A few more minutes at each stop would have probably earned it a higher placement for sure.
But the staff were great. Eladia is beautiful, and I'm sure if you get her as part of your tour
you're in for a good time albeit very briefly. Okay Ninh, I'm sold what do I need to do? Well
you need to come here to the Stadio Olimpico. It’s located nowhere near the centre of Rome.
It's about 6km north of Termini station, and to get here you'll need to take the Rome Metro
to a stop called Ottaviano, and from Ottaviano, you'll need to take the number 32 bus. You'll know
when to get off because it will literally drop you off at the side of the stadium.
The tickets, it costs about €18 or something like that. And for that the tour lasts 45 minutes. You
can book either directly on their website, I'll leave the details on the screen there,
or you can just pay at the ticket office like I did. If you want tickets to actual matches visit
each club's respective websites, and book tickets directly with whichever home side is playing.
Is there anything else I need to know? Yes, if you're expecting a detailed stadium tour,
it's not going to be. The staff here are very lovely, most of them speak English,
so you'll be fine. But it helps to know basic Italian phrases. And if you are coming to Rome
check out my complete Rome City guide right here. Other than that, what you see in this video is
pretty much what you get on a standard stadium tour. And if you have enjoyed this video please
be sure to like, share and subscribe. Comment on that comment section below, and if you've got any
other bucket list ideas you know what to do, tweet them at me. If I get enough suggestions I'll go
ahead and do that. But guys thanks very much for watching and we'll see you in the next episode.
Ninh Ly - www.ninh.co.uk - @NinhLyUK