an. His two sons, Titus and Domitian, continued the project which was completed in the year 82. With its 189 meters long and 156 meters wide, this amphitheater could accommodate 55,000 spectators, coming to watch animal or gladiator fights and even naval battles! This building remained in use ...
mé Verniquet and likely used cast iron supplied by the forges of Buffon in Montbard (21). The other remarkable buildings in the garden include: - The amphitheater built by Verniquet in 1787. - The Rotonde de la Ménagerie, intended to house wild animals, built from 1804 to 1812 by architect Jacque ...
n this country. Visiting the walls of Dubrovnik allows you to appreciate a magnificent panorama over the roofs of the city and the Adriatic Sea. The amphitheater of Pula, built in the 1st century, has been enlarged and restored. It still welcomes audiences today for theater performances or festival ...
site in the "Pyrénées-Mont Perdu, cirques and canyons" ensemble. 2- Why is this natural site a must-see? The Gavarnie Circus is a monumental natural amphitheater that offers stunning landscapes: with its diameter of 6 kilometers and its walls rising to nearly 1500 meters, in three successive stag ...
influence of these new settlers. Over the next five centuries, the city was endowed with many public monuments modeled on Rome: a forum, a theater, an amphitheater, and a circus. Today, one of the masterpieces of the Musée Départemental Arles Antique is a presumed bust of Julius Caesar. This life ...
arena... He had to struggle for five years before succeeding in getting the four basic principles of the modern Olympic Games adopted, in the grand amphitheater of the Sorbonne and in front of 2,000 people, on October 23, 1894. This date has gone down in history as the day of the rebirth of the Ol ...
