View from the Piazzle Anfiteatro, Pompeii
Beneath the umbrella pines in the Piazzale Anfiteatro looking towards Vesuvius. The 20,000-seater amphitheatre is to the right and the Large Palaestra is to the left behind the high wall with battlements. The Large Palaestra consists of a large open-air square, approximately 140 x 140m, surrounded by porticoes. It was built in the Augustan period, at the beginning of the 1st century AD, and was intended for the physical and intellectual training of young citizens.
