A freebie visit!
by sandysmith
Getting into the ampitheatre free of charge! We made our own way to Pula from Rovinj by the local bus but our tour company was also doing a guided tour that day. The guide snook us in because we got soaked on the boat trip in Venice a day or so earlier, and we travelled home from Venice in sopping wet clothes,so he was trying to make it up to us!
Roman Amphitheater...
by coceng
The peripheral wall of the Pula Amphitheater, that had been preserved in its entire ground plan circumference, rises 4 storeys high on the side facing the sea.
There are 72 openings in each storey.
Above the arched openings on both storeys, there's a wall made from 2 rows of stone blocks.
Arena 5
by croisbeauty
Under the arena itself were underground halls housing the machinery for lifting gladiators, space for the beasts and many other devices that were used for the specific events that took place there. A part of the halls is well preserved housing today a little museum.
Arena 9
by croisbeauty
The fight were characterized by immense cruelty and generally in the death of the defeted. Many animals, especially African lions, ended here in a most cruel way.
Gladiator fights continued in the Western Roman Empire until the beginning of 5th century when emperor Honorius forbade them in 404.
James Joyce
by croisbeauty
The great world wide known Irish writer have spend a part of his life in the town of Pula teaching English language. The school was right next to the famous Arch of Sergeius Family, also the apartment where James Joyce were lived.
A foot of his home there was an cafe-bar, at the very same spot where the new one was reopened, and it was the writer favorite place where he used to spend hours watching locals passing by.
Nowadays, here stands the statue of James Joyce, great writer sitting in the shadow of the ancient Roman Arch, do not miss it when visiting Pula.