AOSR H1 1920 x 116
AOSR H1 1920 x 116
AOSR H1 1920 x 116
Marymount - International School Rome

Professional centurions

The business of being a Roman centurion, earning money by posing for photographs with tourists outside major sites such as the Colosseum, is set to become more professional with plans for new rules on costume, behaviour and pricing and a limit on centurion numbers.

A new register of centurions, who have recently been fighting over territorial rights at the Colosseum, will be drawn up and their numbers will be limited to 100, with no more than 20 allowed at any one site. Swearing and vulgar behaviour will be outlawed, and helmets, shields, chest-plates and swords will be closely regulated.

And in future all centurions will have to charge the same price, which has yet to be decided. Tourists currently pay at least 3 per snap, and a centurion is estimated to earn 70 a day on average during the busy summer season.

Castelli H2 - 724 x 450
AOSR H3 1920 x 190
AOSR H3 1920 x 190
AOSR H3 1920 x 190
Smiling tech H3 - 320x480
Acorn High  H5  1400 x 360