Braga Amphitheater
In November 2008 I presented the investigation of a new hypothesis on the location of the amphitheater in Braga. PLANT
BACKGROUND There has long been this archaeological site of the city of Braga.
1976 base: http://www.geira.pt
The ellipse-shaped walls are in urban mapping.
base Drawing: http://www.cm-braga.pt
old photographs showing the location of the building.
Photo: http://forum.bracarae-avgvste.com
AERIAL VIEWS ( Clikee images to see larger ).
Bracara Augusta has an amphitheater almost completely buried and partially destroyed. There
written references from the seventeenth century, their presence urban at a location very close to the theater building and inside the walls of the high-imperial Roman city. Possibly both were built simultaneously in the first century AD The buildings were placed on the axis of maximum decumano forum and East. The arrangement between the two buildings is reminiscent of Augusta Emerita .
an excavation has been done in the "island Carvalheiro das" in the interior of the ellipse-shaped structure of aerial photographs , and where it has found a domus first century, the House of Carvalheiro.
is likely that both buildings were in succession, an amphitheater built on a high imperial house.
At a time when the urban fabric of Bracara changed, and the new needs of the city built the theater and the amphitheater. The domus is well integrated into the arena of the amphitheater. The area has
walls and elliptical-shaped structures that relate geometrically to the excavated walls in the theater, and are visible to the naked eye.
The amphitheater was destroyed at the end of the third century or the beginning of the fourth, when the wall was built under-imperial, to which was a source of building materials, and its foundations were bordering con los nuevos muros de la ciudad. El
amphitheater Bracara Augusta hopes to be rescate del olvido.
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The amphitheater
"Bracara Augusta has a theater, now fully
buried and partially destroyed.
Testimonials attesting to their existence are
references to it made by scholars bracarenses
the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, particularly
D. Rodrigo Cunha (1634) and Counter
Jerónimo Argote (1728, 1732-34). When the first is due to
express mention of the existence in the parish of St. Pedro de
Maximinos in a half circle, where was the place
amphitheater (Cunha 1634). J. Counter
of Argote's even more precise in their location,
saying that was the site of the ancient church of S.
Pedro de Maximinos, referring
it was round and that, in D. Rodrigo da Cunha,
still enjoyed clear traces of their "factory"
(1732-34). The text of Argote
reveals clearly that in his time, the ruins of the building were already
difficult to understand. The last written reference to the amphitheater
comes by the hand of Pereira Caldas, reporting
to 1852, consisting of a roadmap for the artworks that
Queen Maria I and Prince
D. Fernando could see on the trip to the District of Braga
. In it refer to "the scant remains of which still
epizooty manifests, in excavations, ancient Roman amphitheater d'"
(Caldas 1852).
certainly having ceased to be visible in
second half of the century. Century, when it was destroyed
also the ancient church of S. Pedro de
Maximinos, the approximate location of the amphitheater
can be estimated based on analysis of aerial photography
.
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The test conducted by Rui Morais
on the frames of 1964, resulted in
confirmation of a half circle,
corresponding to a large structure buried,
located on the axis of R. S. Sebastian, whose route
correspond approximately to the maximum Decumano
west of Augusta Bracara (Mitchell 2001, figs.
3, 4, 5 and 6).
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Considering the location of this important building
playful, it is nonetheless suggestive
correlate their alignment with the theater, recently
identified on the hill Alto da Cividade being
also noted that both buildings are located on the axis
forum and maximum Decumano
Eastern.
Given that the construction of the theater
date of the beginning of the century. II, it seems acceptable to admit
the same timeline for the construction of the amphitheater,
given the playful nature of the two units.
In fact, both are important elements
prestigious cities and vehicles
ideological expression that permitted in provincial cities
, the reproduction of large demonstrations
Roman public life, as were the munera
and ludi scaenici (Fuentes DomÃnguez 2000).
By contrast, the visual articulation of the two buildings,
according to its topography suggests
were conceived as interconnected elements of the staging
city, which enhances the idea of \u200b\u200bits construction
more or less simultaneously. Today
buried and overlaid with several buildings,
this great equipment must have been quite devastated
, and may have served
quarry for medieval and modern. In
However, we believe that, as happened with the theater
Alto da Cividade, the amphitheater
may have been abandoned at the end of the century. III / IV
beginnings, having started then dismantle its
for obtaining material for the construction of the wall
.
Fuente: Urbanism and Architecture in Bracara Augusta. Balance the contributions of Urban Archaeology . Maria Manuela Martins. Minho University
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Theater Braga
En una area muy al amphitheater next y al edificio de las spa el se ha excavated Yacimiento the theater. The building has about 80 m. in diameter.
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