Caerleon Roman Amphitheatre
Broadway, Caerleon, Newport, NP18 1AY
About this place
Caerleon Roman Amphitheatre was built around AD 90 to entertain the legionaries stationed at the fort of Caerleon (Isca), this impressive amphitheatre was the Roman equivalent of today’s multiplex cinema. Wooden benches provided seating for up to 6,000 spectators, who would gather to watch bloodthirsty displays featuring gladiatorial combat and exotic wild animals. Long after the Romans left, the amphitheatre took on a new life in Arthurian legend. Geoffrey of Monmouth, the somewhat imaginative 12th-century scholar, wrote in his History of the Kings of Britain that Arthur was crowned in Caerleon and that the ruined amphitheatre was actually the remains of King Arthur’s Round Table. Parking and toilets are available outside the amphitheatre.
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Broadway, Caerleon, Newport, NP18 1AY
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