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Amphitheater in Italy

130 documented amphitheaters across Italy, each with real history, a location, and (where available) a photo. A sample below; the full set travels with you offline in the Atika app.

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Cinema Ariston

The Cinema Ariston occupies an entire city block in a trapezoidal plan, its bulk defining the streets around it. At its heart is the main hall, eight …

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Teatro Tiberini

Teatro Tiberini is an amphitheatre in Italy. This type of ancient Roman structure was used for public spectacles.…

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Teatro Politeama Verdi

Teatro Politeama Verdi is an amphitheatre in Italy. It is a large, multi-purpose performance venue typical of the late nineteenth-century boom in civi…

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Roman theater of Catania

In Catania, Sicily, the Complesso Archeologico del Teatro e dell'Odeon preserves two Roman theatres side by side. The larger theatre is a semicircular…

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Teatro Sociale

The Teatro Sociale is an amphitheatre in Italy. It is one of many such structures built across the country, often serving as a venue for public specta…

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Teatro Farnese

Teatro Farnese is a wooden amphitheatre in Parma, Italy. It is an early modern example of a permanent theatre built in the classical style.…

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Teatro Sociale

Teatro Sociale is a theatre in Italy. It is an amphitheatre, a type of performance venue common across the country.…

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Teatro Marrucino

This is a theatre of two lives. The older part, completely restructured, retains its richly stuccoed ceiling and chandelier; the newer part, built in …

EraBaroque

Teatro Concordia, A. Ponchielli

Teatro Concordia, A. Ponchielli is an amphitheatre in Italy. Italian amphitheatres of this period were typically used for public spectacles and perfor…

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TEATRO MARGHERITA

Teatro Margherita is an amphitheatre in Italy. It is a structure designed for public spectacles, typical of the Roman tradition of entertainment archi…

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Teatro

The Teatro Civico of Trino is a small Baroque theatre whose façade, composed of horizontal bands and capped by a rectangular pediment bearing the town…

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Teatro Feronia

The Teatro Feronia is an irregularly shaped building, its perimeter wall a discontinuous rhythm of brick arcades on ground-floor pilasters. Inside, th…

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Teatro Gustavo Modena

Teatro Gustavo Modena is an amphitheatre in Italy. It belongs to a class of performance venues common across the country, many of which were built or …

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Teatro Filodrammatici

Teatro Filodrammatici is a Baroque amphitheatre in Italy. This type of theatre often hosted dramatic and musical performances for public audiences.…

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Cineteatro comunale "Acquaviva"

The Cineteatro Comunale 'Acquaviva' is a study in architectural bicromia, its façade a deliberate play of red facing brick against a simulated travert…

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Casa dei Combattenti

This structure is composed of a main volume and a smaller annexe set back on the right. The main façade’s rhythm of pilasters and a horizontal string …

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Teatro Comunale

The Teatro Comunale is an amphitheatre in Italy. It is a remnant of the region’s long tradition of public performance spaces, where communities once g…

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Teatro Petrella

This is the Teatro Petrella, a compact block of considerable size, eighteen by thirty-one and a half metres, its front turned squarely towards the old…

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Teatro Umberto I

The Teatro Umberto I is a late example of the Italianate opera house tradition, its horseshoe-shaped auditorium rising through three tiers of decorate…

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Teatro Ronci

Teatro Ronci is an amphitheatre in Italy. Italian amphitheatres of this type were typically used for public spectacles and gatherings.…

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Teatro Comunale

Teatro Comunale is a modern amphitheatre in Italy. This type of structure, built for public performance in the modern period, often adapts classical f…

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Teatro Kursaal Santa Lucia

On the Bari seafront, where the lungomare Araldo di Crollalanza meets largo Adua, stands the silent bulk of the Teatro Kursaal Santa Lucia. This theat…

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Teatro Alessandro Bonci

The Teatro Alessandro Bonci rises on level ground, detached on all sides, its irregular plan combining a semi-elliptical cavea with a rectangular stag…

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Teatro Comunale

The Teatro Comunale presents an exterior of original neoclassical restraint. Its two storeys, divided by simple cornices, are rendered in muted reds, …

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resti dell'anfiteatro romano di Pollenzo

The remains of Pollenzo’s Roman amphitheatre are a lesson in pragmatism. This was no free-standing, arcaded giant, but a ‘solid structure’ type: only …

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Teatro sociale

The Teatro sociale is an amphitheatre in Italy. Amphitheatres of this type were common across the country, designed for public spectacles and performa…

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Palazzo e Teatro Civico

The Palazzo e Teatro Civico is a municipal building and amphitheatre in Italy. It is a civic theatre, a type of public performance venue common in Ita…

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Teatro comunale Francesco Cilea

A theatre in Reggio Calabria. It is a modern amphitheatre, built in the twentieth century. Italian civic theatres of this period often blend classical…

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Teatro Comunale

Teatro Comunale is a modern amphitheatre in Italy. This type of structure, built for public performance, was revived in the modern period as a civic a…

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Teatro Comunale

Teatro Comunale is an amphitheatre in Italy. It is a site of a type built for public spectacles and performances.…

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Teatro Golfarelli

The Teatro Golfarelli is a curious composite of a place. It occupies a gently sloping site, its rectangular plan and horseshoe-shaped auditorium squee…

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Teatro Storchi

Teatro Storchi is a modern amphitheatre in Italy. The design of such performance spaces in the modern period often reflects a shift from ancient open-…

EraModern

Arena del Sole

The Arena del Sole is an amphitheatre in Italy. It is a Roman-era structure, one of many such public entertainment venues built across the empire.…

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So-called Roman Gymnasium at Syracuse

This sprawling, ruinous complex in Syracuse was originally misidentified as a Roman gymnasium, though its true purpose remains debated. Likely built a…

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Roman amphitheater at Paestum

The Roman amphitheater at Paestum was built ca. 50 B.C., making it one of the earliest extant amphitheaters.…

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Theatrum Pompei

Rome's first permanent theater, located in the Campus Martius. The complex was completed under the second consulship of Pompeius Magnus in 55 B.C.…

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Odeon at Hadrian's Villa

The Odeon at Hadrian's Villa is also referred to as the South Theater. It is located at the southern end of the Villa Adriana.…

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Roman theater at Benevento

A Roman theater of the second century A.D. constructed during the reign of Hadrian.…

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Roman amphitheater at Tusculum

Today the Roman amphitheater at Tusculum is poorly preserved. These ruins have never been systematically investigated.…

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Roman theater at Aosta

A Roman city guarding the road to the Alps, its monuments standing among the mountains. Aosta, founded as Augusta Praetoria in 25 BC for Augustus's ve…

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Roman theater of Suasa

At Suasa, the Roman theatre was uncovered only in 2003, during excavations near the amphitheatre. It is a semicircular structure, some 55 metres in di…

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Roman theater at Asculum

The Roman theater at Asculum was discovered during excavations in 1932. The structure dates to the first century A.D.…

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Roman theater at Amiternum

The Roman theater at Amiternum could seat approximately 2,000 people. It was abandoned after the fourth century and became a necropolis.…

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Anfiteatro di Bleso

The "Anfiteatro di Bleso" is a second century A.D. Roman amphitheater at Tibur (modern Tivoli in Italy).…

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Roman amphitheater at Trebula Mutuesca

The archaeological remains of the Roman amphitheater at Trebula Mutuesca are located at Monteleone Sabino in the Province of Rieti, Italy.…

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Roman amphitheater at Spoletium

The remains of the early Imperial amphitheater were discovered within the Caserma Minervio during the early nineteenth century.…

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Il Tondo

A first-century AD Roman amphitheater located in Latium near Zagorolo, Italy.…

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Anfiteatro minore

The so-called "Anfiteatro minore" is a small amphitheater at Puteoli dating to the early Imperial period.…

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Circus Gaii et Neronis

In the Vatican’s shadow, beneath the pious hush of St. Peter’s, lie the bones of a very different Roman spectacle. The Circus Gaii et Neronis was neve…

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Roman theater at Iguvium

The Roman theater at Iguvium, within the Guastuglia archaeological area, dates to the late republican period. It is a notable example of the architect…

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Villa Maxentii

A complex on the Via Appia constructed by Maxentius in the early fourth century A.D.…

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Roman amphitheater at Volaterrae

The Roman amphitheatre at Volterra was an unexpected discovery, unearthed only in 2015 during routine archaeological work. Its remains suggest a subst…

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Roman amphitheater at Arretium

The Roman amphitheater at Arretium was built during the late first and early second centuries. It measures 121 by 68 meters.…

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Roman theater at Ostia

The Roman theater at Ostia was built under the patronage of Marcus Agrippa.…

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Circus Maximus

The Circus Maximus, slung in the long valley between the Aventine and Palatine hills, was ancient Rome’s great theatre of speed and spectacle. This wa…

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Circus of Maxentius

The Circus of Maxentius is part of a complex of buildings built by emperor Maxentius on the Via Appia between A.D. 306 and 312.…

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Roman theater at Fiesole

The hill town that was there before Florence. Etruscan Fiesole looked down on the Arno valley for centuries before Rome, and later Florence, eclipsed …

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Amphitheatrum Castrense

A curious relic of imperial Rome, the Amphitheatrum Castrense is a third-century AD amphitheatre that once hosted spectacles for a city still confiden…

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Roman amphitheater at Grumentum

Grumentum's amphitheater (first century B.C.) is the only known example in Lucania. The arena measures ca. 62.5 by 60 meters.…

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Roman theater of Milan

The Roman theater of Milan was built during the Augustan period and could accommodate 7,000 to 9,000 spectators.…

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Roman Theatre at Caere

At Caere, the Roman theatre stands as a quiet monument to political spectacle as much as drama. Cut into the ancient tufa hillside, it once held tiers…

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Roman amphitheater at Volsinii

The Roman amphitheater at Volsinii dates to the second half of the first century A.D. It measures ca. 86 x 69 meters.…

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Circus Varianus

The Circus Varianus was once the private chariot-racing circuit of the Sessorium, the sprawling imperial palace complex on the eastern edge of Rome. U…

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Anfiteatro Fausto

The Anfiteatro Fausto, or Amphitheatre of Faustus, is a Roman relic in the Umbrian city of Terni, built during the reign of Tiberius. Like many amphit…

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Roman Theater of Cluviae

The remains of a Roman theater, identified only in the twentieth century, lie near Piano La Roma in the municipal territory of Casoli. Its constructio…

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Roman theater at Suessa Aurunca

The Roman theater at Suessa Aurunca, built in the first century A.D. and later restored under Antoninus Pius, is a monument to the persistence of both…

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Roman amphitheater at Lucus Feroniae

The Roman amphitheater at Lucus Feroniae, financed by one M. Silius Epaphroditus, is a modest but telling relic of imperial ambition. Dating from the …

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Roman theater at Volaterrae

The Roman theater of Volaterrae was built during the during the Augustan period under the consulship of Aulus Caecina Severus.…

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Roman amphitheater at Ariminum

The Roman amphitheater at Ariminum is dated to the second century, perhaps during the reign of Hadrian.…

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Roman theater at Carsulae

The Roman theater at Carsulae dates to the Augustan period, pre-dating the amphitheater.…

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Teatro Olimpico

The oldest surviving indoor theatre in the world, and the last work of Andrea Palladio. Designed in 1580 for a learned Vicenza academy, it recreates a…

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Teatro alla Scala

Teatro alla Scala is an opera house in Milan. It is a theatre, not an amphitheatre. Italian opera houses of this period are known for their horseshoe-…

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