Amphitheatre of Cordoba (Under the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine) PLANT
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The amphitheater found in Córdoba, capital of Andalusia was the third largest of the empire.
Excavations at the rear of the old School of Veterinary Medicine have brought to the fore part of which was the largest building of its kind in Roman Spain and third of the whole empire, after Rome's Colosseum and the amphitheater of Carthage, as archaeologists. The amphitheater century I. The major axis of the ellipse that draw these structures, in which the gladiators fought and the slaves were faced with the beasts, is 178 meters, four more than the Amphitheatre of Italica in Seville. The other axis could be about 140 meters. The building was built in the reign of Claudius Flavio could hold between 30,000 and 50,000 people, was abandoned in the fourth century.
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