Amphitheatre in Capua
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His wife could predict the future.
One day, in a dream, she saw a snake wrap around her husband’s face.
Then she said, Spartacus will gain power and recognition, but it will end in death.
Capua held a strategic position in the Campaign. It was in Capua from Rome in 312 BC. was laid the most significant political and economic road of the Roman Empire - the Appian road.
Capua in ancient Rome was the unofficial capital of the gladiatorial schools of ancient Italy. The schools of Capua, traditionally considered the best, supplied hundreds of fighters to all the arenas in Italy and, of course, in Rome. In Capua itself, the performances were spectacular and pompous.
Here was a gladiatorial school under the leadership of Lentulus Batiatus, where a slave revolt broke out under the leadership of Spartacus.
It is the least known of all the famous amphitheaters.
The amphitheater accommodated about 60 thousand spectators, therefore, a little inferior to the Roman Colosseum. The construction corresponded to the most advanced at that time ideas about the device and technology of games.
Entrance ticket 2.50 euros entitles you to visit: the Amphitheatre, the Museum of Gladiators and the Archaeological Museum of ancient Capua.