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Amphitheatres

Explore monumental venues built for public spectacle, gathering, performance, and the carefully managed movement of enormous crowds.

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El Djem Amphitheatre

Third-largest Roman amphitheatre, larger than what survives of the Colosseum. Capacity 35,000, in a small town in the Tunisian interior.

One of the six largest surviving Roman amphitheatres and the only one with all three architectural orders preserved.