amphitheatre

This amphitheatre is the Val Buona; that little white house is the cottage of Bastian the wood-ranger; yonder pale gigantic pinnacles towering in solitary splendour above the tree-tops to the rear of the cottage, are the crests of the Cristallo.

Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys

Nothing to do but pull on a thick balaclava, grab the sled, and go steaming up the hill to the top of what we call the amphitheatre, in the field opposite the main house.

Via Negativa

Nothing to do but pull on a thick balaclava, grab the sled, and go steaming up the hill to the top of what we call the amphitheatre, in the field opposite the main house.

Via Negativa

For the rest it had the finest and vastest prospect all round it I ever saw from any house: from Tyndale Fell to St. Bees Head, all Cumberland as in amphitheatre unmatchable; Galloway mountains,

New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle

This huge amphitheatre is in course of excavation; and it is quite possible – possible and probable – that inscriptions in the earliest stages of the hieroglyphic writing may there be discovered.

Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers

Presiding over the amphitheatre was a beast-headed god, his head half turned away.

Henry’s Demons

Presiding over the amphitheatre was a beast-headed god, his head half turned away.

Henry’s Demons

Sitting directly behind us in the amphitheatre was another artistic inventor from that time who has managed to survive, Victor Moscoso above.

Hippies on Mount Tam 1: The Musical

Sitting directly behind us in the amphitheatre was another artistic inventor from that time who has managed to survive, Victor Moscoso above.

Archive 2007-05-01

Behind the amphitheatre were the thermae of the same emperor Titus Vespasian.

Travels through France and Italy