Piazza dell Anfiteatro

Piazza dell'Anfiteatro is a public square in the northeast quadrant of walled center of Lucca, region of Tuscany, Italy. The ring of structures encompassing the square, takes after the curved state of the previous second century Roman Amphitheater of Lucca. The square can be come to through four passages situated at the four vertices of the oval. A cross is cut into the focal tile of the square with the arms indicating the four portals of the square. The base of the previous amphitheater going back to the first or second century BC is currently approximately 3 meters beneath the inside. At its top around 18 columns of amphitheater seats held nearly 10,000 onlookers.

Presently a urban square piazza, encompassed by private habitations constructed utilizing the rest of the structures of the Amphitheater, and involved by a few open air bistros, made in 1830 by the modeler Lorenzo Nottolini who leveled a portion of the structures inside the oval. It was initially renovated to be a commercial center. The amphitheater, worked as the focal point of stimulation outside the Roman town, is today the focal point of town life and the plain image of Lucca. It is a one of a kind circular formed court, theater of the life of the natives of Lucca, shut in a grasp of medieval houses and, disregarding the death of the centuries, is constantly alive and observer to multitudinous changes.