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Tod’s founder helps restore Colusseum

24/01/2011

Diego Della Valle, the founder of Italian luxury leathergoods firm Tod’s, has offered to sponsor the restoration project of the ancient Colosseum in Rome.

Mr Della Valle will pay $34 million to clean and restore the world-famous structure which has been blackened by pollution and rocked by vibrations of a nearby subway line.

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