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The Tours amphitheater (also known as the Caesarodunum amphitheater) is a Roman amphitheatre located in the historic city center of Tours, France, immediately behind the well known Tours cathedral. It was built in the 1st century when the city was called Caesarodunum. It was built atop a small hill on the outskirts of the ancient urban area ...
The results of these excavations, conducted from 1978 to 1982, led to a rewriting of the history of the amphitheater's integration into the fortified enclosure and its evolution during the Early Middle Ages. This subject was published in the journal Tours antique et médiéval. [35] [36]
2nd C. – Tours amphitheatre expanded; 3rd C. – Roman Catholic diocese of Tours established. [3] 250 – Tours Amphitheatre turned into a fortification; 4th C. – Cathedral built by Litorius (bishop) . [1] 327 - Marmoutier Abbey founded. [1] 360 – Castrum added to the area around the fortified amphitheatre. 371 – Martin of Tours becomes ...
Unhindered by pandemic restrictions, the country singer drew one of the largest crowds in Ford Idaho Center Amphitheater history. The drop count — or number of bodies through the gate — was ...
Tours is located between two rivers, the Loire to the north and the Cher to the south. The buildings of Tours are white with blue slate (called Ardoise) roofs; this style is common in the north of France, while most buildings in the south of France have terracotta roofs. Tours is famous for its original medieval district, called le Vieux Tours.
The 12,000-capacity amphitheater will also welcome performances by Riley Green, Justin Moore, Lauren Daigle, Moneybagg Yo, Glorilla, Jason Aldean and more in 2024. Show comments Advertisement
R.E.M.'s final tour was the "Accelerate Tour", which took place between March and November 2008. [ 2 ] In 2007, before the release of Accelerate and the supporting tour behind it in 2008, R.E.M. held five night "rehearsals" in front of a live audience at Olympia Theatre, Dublin to test out new material from Accelerate and to revisit and perform ...
The Amphitheatre of Pompeii in the 1800s, one of the earliest known Roman amphitheatres. It is uncertain when and where the first amphitheatres were built. There are records attesting to temporary wooden amphitheatres built in the Forum Romanum for gladiatorial games from the second century BC onwards, and these may be the origin of the architectural form later expressed in stone. [5]