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 …
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.
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 …
Teatro Tiberini is an amphitheatre in Italy. This type of ancient Roman structure was used for public spectacles.…
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…
In Catania, Sicily, the Complesso Archeologico del Teatro e dell'Odeon preserves two Roman theatres side by side. The larger theatre is a semicircular…
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…
Teatro Farnese is a wooden amphitheatre in Parma, Italy. It is an early modern example of a permanent theatre built in the classical style.…
Teatro Sociale is a theatre in Italy. It is an amphitheatre, a type of performance venue common across the country.…
This is a theatre of two lives. The older part, completely restructured, retains its richly stuccoed ceiling and chandelier; the newer part, built in …
Teatro Concordia, A. Ponchielli is an amphitheatre in Italy. Italian amphitheatres of this period were typically used for public spectacles and perfor…
Teatro Margherita is an amphitheatre in Italy. It is a structure designed for public spectacles, typical of the Roman tradition of entertainment archi…
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…
The Teatro Feronia is an irregularly shaped building, its perimeter wall a discontinuous rhythm of brick arcades on ground-floor pilasters. Inside, th…
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 …
Teatro Filodrammatici is a Baroque amphitheatre in Italy. This type of theatre often hosted dramatic and musical performances for public audiences.…
The Cineteatro Comunale 'Acquaviva' is a study in architectural bicromia, its façade a deliberate play of red facing brick against a simulated travert…
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 …
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…
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…
The Teatro Umberto I is a late example of the Italianate opera house tradition, its horseshoe-shaped auditorium rising through three tiers of decorate…
Teatro Ronci is an amphitheatre in Italy. Italian amphitheatres of this type were typically used for public spectacles and gatherings.…
Teatro Comunale is a modern amphitheatre in Italy. This type of structure, built for public performance in the modern period, often adapts classical f…
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…
The Teatro Alessandro Bonci rises on level ground, detached on all sides, its irregular plan combining a semi-elliptical cavea with a rectangular stag…
The Teatro Comunale presents an exterior of original neoclassical restraint. Its two storeys, divided by simple cornices, are rendered in muted reds, …
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 …
The Teatro sociale is an amphitheatre in Italy. Amphitheatres of this type were common across the country, designed for public spectacles and performa…
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…
A theatre in Reggio Calabria. It is a modern amphitheatre, built in the twentieth century. Italian civic theatres of this period often blend classical…
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…
Teatro Comunale is an amphitheatre in Italy. It is a site of a type built for public spectacles and performances.…
The old centre of this medieval hill town retains its defensive character, clustered on a rocky spur above the surrounding farmland. The ruins of a No…
The Teatro Golfarelli is a curious composite of a place. It occupies a gently sloping site, its rectangular plan and horseshoe-shaped auditorium squee…
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-…
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.…
Piazza Matteotti is a study in disciplined Baroque urbanity, a quadrangular space of measured grandeur. The heart of the composition is a raised stone…
This sprawling, ruinous complex in Syracuse was originally misidentified as a Roman gymnasium, though its true purpose remains debated. Likely built a…
The Roman amphitheater at Paestum was built ca. 50 B.C., making it one of the earliest extant amphitheaters.…
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.…
The Roman theater at Verona dates from the late first century B.C.…
The Roman amphitheater at Verona dates to ca. A.D. 30.…
The Greek Theater at Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli.…
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.…
A Roman theater of the second century A.D. constructed during the reign of Hadrian.…
The Roman theater at Falerii was excavated in 1829.…
The Roman amphitheater at Suasa dates to the first century A.D.…
The Roman theater at Iuvanum is located at the foot of the acropolis.…
Today the Roman amphitheater at Tusculum is poorly preserved. These ruins have never been systematically investigated.…
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…
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…
The Roman theater at Asculum was discovered during excavations in 1932. The structure dates to the first century A.D.…
The Roman amphitheater at Rusellae dates to the first century.…
The Roman theater at Amiternum could seat approximately 2,000 people. It was abandoned after the fourth century and became a necropolis.…
Roman amphitheater at Termini Imerese was of modest size and is today poorly preserved.…
The Roman amphitheater at Patavium dates to the Augustan period.…
The "Anfiteatro di Bleso" is a second century A.D. Roman amphitheater at Tibur (modern Tivoli in Italy).…
The Roman amphitheater at Sipous/Sipontum.…
The Roman amphitheater at Hispellum dates to the first century.…
The Roman amphitheater at Falerio Picenus dates to the first century A.D.…
The archaeological remains of the Roman amphitheater at Trebula Mutuesca are located at Monteleone Sabino in the Province of Rieti, Italy.…
The remains of the early Imperial amphitheater were discovered within the Caserma Minervio during the early nineteenth century.…
The Roman theater at Castrum Novum (Santa Marinella, Italy).…
The Flavian amphitheater at Rome (the so-called "Colosseum").…
A first-century AD Roman amphitheater located in Latium near Zagorolo, Italy.…
The so-called "Anfiteatro minore" is a small amphitheater at Puteoli dating to the early Imperial period.…
An amphitheater dating to the time of Augustus.…
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…
The Roman amphitheater at Frusino measures ca. 78 by 57 meters.…
The Roman theater at Brixia was built during the Flavian period.…
The Roman theater at Iguvium, within the Guastuglia archaeological area, dates to the late republican period. It is a notable example of the architect…
A complex on the Via Appia constructed by Maxentius in the early fourth century A.D.…
The Roman amphitheatre at Volterra was an unexpected discovery, unearthed only in 2015 during routine archaeological work. Its remains suggest a subst…
The Roman amphitheater at Arretium was built during the late first and early second centuries. It measures 121 by 68 meters.…
The Roman theater at Ostia was built under the patronage of Marcus Agrippa.…
The Roman theater at Ferentium dates to the early Imperial period.…
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…
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.…
The Roman amphitheater at Luca dates to the second half of the first century.…
The Roman amphitheater at Albano Laziale is generally dated to the mid-third century A.D.…
The hill town that was there before Florence. Etruscan Fiesole looked down on the Arno valley for centuries before Rome, and later Florence, eclipsed …
A Roman amphitheater of the first century A.D.…
A Roman theater dating to the Augustan period.…
Helvia Ricina flourished under Augustus and Tiberius and its theater is the largest in Picenum.…
In the Porta Perlici of Assisi are the remains of a first century A.D. Roman amphitheater.…
The remains of the Roman amphitheater at Libarna are located in Serravalle Scrivia, Italy.…
A first century A.D. amphitheater at Alba Fucens built during the reign of Tiberius.…
The Roman amphitheater at Ancona could accommodate 8,000 to 10,000 spectators.…
A curious relic of imperial Rome, the Amphitheatrum Castrense is a third-century AD amphitheatre that once hosted spectacles for a city still confiden…
Grumentum's amphitheater (first century B.C.) is the only known example in Lucania. The arena measures ca. 62.5 by 60 meters.…
The Roman theater of Milan was built during the Augustan period and could accommodate 7,000 to 9,000 spectators.…
The Roman amphitheater at Trebula dates to the Augustan period.…
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…
The Roman amphitheater at Marruvium measures 95 by 75 meters.…
Remains of a Roman amphitheater at Fabrateria Nova.…
The Roman amphitheater at Volsinii dates to the second half of the first century A.D. It measures ca. 86 x 69 meters.…
The Roman theater at Falerio Picenus was completed during the reign of Tiberius.…
The Roman theater at Tergeste dates to the late first century A.D.…
The Roman theater at Casinum dates to the Augustan period.…
The Roman theater at Ferentinum is today poorly preserved.…
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…
The Roman theater at Ocriculum dates to the early imperial period.…
A Roman amphitheater dating to the first century A.D.…
The Roman amphitheater at Teate dates to the first century.…
The Roman amphitheater at Sutri likely dates to the reign of Augustus.…
The Falerii Novi amphitheater is located north of the city walls.…
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…
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…
The Roman theater at Teate measures 80 meters in diameter.…
An amphitheater of the first century A.D.…
The Roman theater at Spoletium dates to the first century B.C.…
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…
The Roman amphitheater at Florentia was built between 124 and 130.…
The Greek theater of Tyndaris dates originally to the fourth century B.C.…
The Roman amphitheater at Lucus Feroniae, financed by one M. Silius Epaphroditus, is a modest but telling relic of imperial ambition. Dating from the …
The Roman theater of Volaterrae was built during the during the Augustan period under the consulship of Aulus Caecina Severus.…
The Roman amphitheater at Carsulae dates to the first century A.D.…
The Roman amphitheater at Ocriculum lies outside the city walls.…
The Roman amphitheater at Ariminum is dated to the second century, perhaps during the reign of Hadrian.…
The Roman theater at Carsulae dates to the Augustan period, pre-dating the amphitheater.…
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…
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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