Amphitheatre of Bordeaux

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Gallian Palace is an ancient amphitheatre, built in the early second century in the Gallo-Roman city of Burdigala (Bordeaux), capital of the province of Aquitaine. This monument measures 132 × 111 m and has wooden stands supported by a structure that rests on a set of ring bearing and radiant walls. Its capacity is estimated at 22,000 spectators.

Perhaps a victim of a fire and in any case abandoned at the end of Antiquity, he was transformed into a stone quarry in the Middle Ages, a dump site at the French Revolution, sold in lots shortly afterwards, before a prefectural decision stopped in 1800 the deterioration of his remains which have been classified as historical monuments since 1840. The entrance of a vomitory and a small part of a radiant wall and some ring walls remains, but the plot of its arena remains very visible in the block of the neighborhood.