Romano Siracusa amphitheatre

The Syracusa amphitheater of the imperial age, most likely in the third century D.C., is considered one of the most significant amphitheaters of its kind. Its elliptical shape has an extension of 140m x 119m. In it we can observe two arches the north and the south which was the one that served to give way to the gladiators and the beasts, also it is known that at the most southern main entrance there was an access to the carts for the shows of notebooks. The deterioration of the steps is due to the use of the stones as a quarry to realize the churches in the Christian era and the fortification of the base of Ortiz in the 16th century by the Spaniards. In the sand you can still see the excavated holes (m. 15.50 × 8.70) and a depth of 2.50 m., covered in ancient times by a wooden entrimed, and served by an underground access of the room from where the slaves did the cleaning of the sand and where they had the tools for the equipment of the show.

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