Leptis Magna Things to Do

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The Severan Basilica is 92 metres long, and 40 metres wide. It was built as a judicial basilica, and it has two apses at either end.
It was converted into a church by the command of Byzantine emperor, Justinian 1.(6th century)
First impression entering the basilica : a mess of stones and pillars. But the local guide explainded a lot of things and scetched the scéne. After all- a place to remember.

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A nymfaeum was a Roman temple consecrated to water nymphs, and added during the reign of Septimius Severus. It once had a superb facade of red granite, and niches filled with marble statues, but most of it was destroyed by a flood.
This one stands near to the Wadi Lebda and, like most nymfaeum, originally built around a natural spring.
Next to the Nymfaeum you will find the Hydrianic Baths, a perfection of relaxing during that Roman glorieus period

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Among the many sites at Leptis Magna you will find many arches, like the Severan Arch, the Palaestra or Sports Ground, the Nymphaeum, the Hadrianic Baths, the Colonnaded Street, the Severan Forum, the Severan Basilica, the theater, the harbour, the Circus, the Temple of Liber Pater, the Temple of Rome and Augustus, the Arch of Trajan, the Arch of Tiberius and the Market.

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The site of Leptis Magna is the site of the most impressive ruins of the Roman period.
Leptis Magna, also known as Lectis Magna (or Lepcis Magna as it is sometimes spelled), also called Lpqy or Neapolis, was a prominent city of the Roman Empire.
The first three pictures are showing the Arch of Septimius Severus, at the end a look at the Arch of Trajan on the Cardo maximum. (Pic 4)

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Emperor Lucius Septimius Severus, born in Leptis in 146, favoured his birthplace with the construction of magnificent public buildings of which a great forum , a huge basilica and a 12 km underground aqueduct. All this in the late 2nd century,

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The theater in Leptis Magna is a typical Augustian age theater, built in AD 1-2, and subsequently renovated. The scaenae fronts (back scene) of the theatre is well preserved.
There was another group of dutch visitors. Three of them were singing the "Klokke Roeland song" , without microphone, just perfect.

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The Hadrianic Baths are impressive, once you can imagine how it was constructed to get steamy water. One of the pools, measuring 28 times 15 metre, remains intact. This bath house was one of the largest that ever was built outside Rome itself.

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Adjacent to the swimming pool in the Hadrianic Baths were the Forico or public toilets. These were indeed very public toilets where people sat together, in a row, on a long marble seat above a channel of moving water. Presumably, they chatted and perhaps also read, while they sat there.

There was a long trough of water in front of the seats, where sponges on sticks, which people used to wipe themselves, could be rinsed. And that is probably more information than you wanted to know!