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It was the biggest stadium of the ancient Rome, but there is only a big prairie.We have an idea of bow it could look like because of the different that the archeologist found during their traces excavations.According to the roman tradition the circus was built in the place there the Sabine bad been kidnapped.The final structure, of walls is from the II century BC, and around 549 AD, somebuilding works bad been orderad by the king og the Goth so as to inprove the beauty of the circus is structure, then be decided to organise one of the last "races" in this place. The place is impressive and hes titanic is dimensions in fact the circus is 600 meters long and metres wide, with a seating capacity of 350000 seats, a lot of races and bloody games with wild animals were used to take place.The two Egyptians obelisks, which used to decorate the central reservation, had been moved by Sisto V in the XVI century.One of them has been trasfered to the Piazza del Popolo while the other is in Piazza di San Giovanni in Luterano.During the middle- age the build became a fortress, you can also visit the little Frangipane's tower. |
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