Conjunto Arqueológico de Itálica
Sunken Roman arena and unearthed city streets, once looted for lime and marble across fifteen centuries.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Roman ruins of Italica near Seville opens with a mismatch: an amphitheater built for twenty-five thousand seats in a town that likely held only eight thousand people. From there it traces how the site was stripped for centuries, from medieval villagers burning its marble for lime to a nineteenth-century countess, Regla Manjon, who carted off its mosaics for her own mansion floor. Look down into the service pit beneath the amphitheater's arena floor, where gladiators once waited before a fight.
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