Roman amphitheatre of Metz

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The amphitheatre of Metz, called "the great amphitheatre", is built around the end of the first century or in the first half of the second century in the district of the basilicas of Divodurum Mediomatricorum in Gentile, today the Sablon district of Metz (and future new district of the Amphithéâtre). It was one of the largest amphitheatres built in Roman Gaul, one of the ten largest amphitheatres built by the Romans, and if one refers to the only length of its great axis (158 m.), the third largest in the Roman world, after the Colosseum and that of Capua. The play building extended from the former Metz-Commerce station to the current Amphitheatre passage.