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Anfiteatro romano de Carmona

Carmona, Campiña de Carmona, Seville

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Anfiteatro romano de Carmona

Monument · Carmona, Campiña de Carmona, Seville

1st-century BC oval amphitheater (55 by 39 meters) with capacity for about 18,000 spectators, used for gladiator combats and animal hunts. The arena, the ima cavea, and part of the media cavea, carved into the rock, survive, along with drainage channels and holes for the posts of animal cages. First excavated by George Bonsor and J. Fernández López in 1885, it was listed as a monument in 1978 and declared a Bien de Interés Cultural, Spain's highest level of heritage protection, on 19 March 2003.

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