amphitheater

• Walker had floated a proposal to add an open-air amphitheater, add restrooms, landscaping, lighting, benches and trash cans to the area, making it more of a family-friendly venue for civic events. —  Sand Mountain Reporter: News
• Whether we turn toward the Miseno shore of the splendid watery amphitheater, and go by the Grotto of Posilipo to the Grotto del Cane and away to Baiae, or take the other way, toward Vesuvius and Sorrento, it is one succession of delights. —  Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 8 Italy and Greece, Part Two
• The radiance and magnificence of these dwellings of the dead, the white freshness of the scarcely-finished marble, the impassioned or imaginative life of the figures which adorn them, contrast strangely with the simplicity of the houses of those who were living when Vesuvius overwhelmed them I have forgotten the amphitheater, which is of great magnitude, tho much inferior to the Coliseum. —  Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 8 Italy and Greece, Part Two
• As Pola is seen now, the amphitheater is the one monument of its older days, which strikes the eye in the general view, and which divides attention with signs that show how heartily the once forsaken city has entered on its new career. —  Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 6 Germany, Austria-Hungary and Switzerland, part 2
• Upon a raised seat in a conspicuous part of the amphitheater was the —  The Martyr of the Catacombs A Tale of Ancient Rome

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