Type:

Luoghi della cultura; Ente/Istituzione

Category:

Archaeology museums

%3D\"font-size:10.0pt;font-family:%26quot;TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT%26quot;,%26quot;sans-serif%26quot;; mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\" lang%3D\"EN-GB\">The amphitheatre was built during the first decades of the 1st centuryA.D. and%2Fspan>%3D\"font-size:10.0pt;font-family:%26quot;TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT%26quot;,%26quot;sans-serif%26quot;; mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\" lang%3D\"EN-GB\"> was located in a suburban area outside the town walls and the strip%2Fspan>%3D\"font-size:10.0pt;font-family:%26quot;TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT%26quot;,%26quot;sans-serif%26quot;; mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\" lang%3D\"EN-GB\"> delimited by the present day ‘circle of theNavigli’canal system. The elliptical%2Fspan>%3D\"font-size:10.0pt;font-family:%26quot;TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT%26quot;,%26quot;sans-serif%26quot;; mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\" lang%3D\"EN-GB\"> shaped building presented a façadewith three superimposed orders, awindowed attic%2Fspan>%3D\"font-size:10.0pt;font-family:%26quot;TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT%26quot;,%26quot;sans-serif%26quot;; mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\" lang%3D\"EN-GB\"> and axes of more than 155 metres by 125 metres making it one of the largest%2Fspan>%3D\"font-size:10.0pt;font-family:%26quot;TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT%26quot;,%26quot;sans-serif%26quot;; mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\" lang%3D\"EN-GB\"> amphitheatres inItaly. It heldcontests between gladiators, betweenmen and wild beasts%2Fspan>%3D\"font-size:10.0pt;font-family:%26quot;TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT%26quot;,%26quot;sans-serif%26quot;; mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\" lang%3D\"EN-GB\"> and between animals, it was also the venue for executing people condemned to be%2Fspan>%3D\"font-size:10.0pt;font-family:%26quot;TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT%26quot;,%26quot;sans-serif%26quot;; mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\" lang%3D\"EN-GB\"> torn to pieces by ferocious beasts. More rarely,%26nbsp; it hosted Naval battles. The ancient%2Fspan>%3D\"font-size:10.0pt;font-family:%26quot;TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT%26quot;,%26quot;sans-serif%26quot;; mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\" lang%3D\"EN-GB\"> sources offer little information regarding themonument. Paolino, the biographer of St%2Fspan>%3D\"font-size:10.0pt;font-family:%26quot;TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT%26quot;,%26quot;sans-serif%26quot;; mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\" lang%3D\"EN-GB\"> Ambrose talks of Cresconius (396A.D.) being exposed towild beasts on the occasion%2Fspan>%3D\"font-size:10.0pt;font-family:%26quot;TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT%26quot;,%26quot;sans-serif%26quot;; mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\" lang%3D\"EN-GB\"> of Honorius’third consulate and Claudian recollects the celebration for the consulate%2Fspan>%3D\"font-size:10.0pt;font-family:%26quot;TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT%26quot;,%26quot;sans-serif%26quot;; mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\" lang%3D\"EN-GB\"> of Flavius Manlius Theodorus (399 A.D.). The monument fell into disuse after%2Fspan>%3D\"font-size:10.0pt;font-family:%26quot;TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT%26quot;,%26quot;sans-serif%26quot;; mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\" lang%3D\"EN-GB\"> gladiatorial spectacles had been abolished and its superstructure was exploited as a%2Fspan>%3D\"font-size:10.0pt;font-family:%26quot;TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT%26quot;,%26quot;sans-serif%26quot;; mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\" lang%3D\"EN-GB\"> quarry from the late Roman period onward, providing building material for various%2Fspan>%3D\"font-size:10.0pt;font-family:%26quot;TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT%26quot;,%26quot;sans-serif%26quot;; mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\" lang%3D\"EN-GB\"> public constructions within the city including the foundations for the Basilica of%2Fspan>%3D\"font-size:10.0pt;font-family:%26quot;TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT%26quot;,%26quot;sans-serif%26quot;; mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\" lang%3D\"EN-GB\"> S.Lorenzo. The archaeological investigation of themonument that began in the 1930’s%2Fspan>%3D\"font-size:10.0pt;font-family:%26quot;TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT%26quot;,%26quot;sans-serif%26quot;; mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\" lang%3D\"EN-GB\"> and continued in the 1970’s and 1990’swas restarted thanks to the development of the%2Fspan>%3D\"font-size:10.0pt;font-family:%26quot;TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT%26quot;,%26quot;sans-serif%26quot;; mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\" lang%3D\"EN-GB\"> archaeological park, inaugurated along with the nearby Antiquarium in 2004. The%2Fspan>%3D\"font-size:10.0pt;font-family:%26quot;TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT%26quot;,%26quot;sans-serif%26quot;; mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\" lang%3D\"EN-GB\"> park hosts the remains of the foundations of the perimeter walls and of seven radial%2Fspan>%3D\"font-size:10.0pt;font-family: %26quot;TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT%26quot;,%26quot;sans-serif%26quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\" lang%3D\"EN-GB\"> walls that sustained the pit and tiers for the seating of spectators.%2Fspan>%3D\"font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language: EN-GB\" lang%3D\"EN-GB\">%2Fspan>