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CLIL project
3 BL
 2015/2016
Lupiae
Lecce in the Roman age
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Lecce is a town with an ancient history that is coming back to light thanks to the
researches on urban archaeology conducted by the University of Salento
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The Roman amphitheater of Lecce is the most
important monument achieved by Lupiae, the
ancient name of Lecce, between the first and
second century after Christ.
The monument was
discovered during the
construction works of
the building of the Bank
of Italy in the twentieth
century thanks to the
archeologist Cosimo De
Giorgi.
In the Arena plays
and perfomances
and also
battles
between lions and
gladiators
were
held in the past.
The Roman Theatre
The Roman Theatre of Lecce
is thought to have been constructed
during the Augustus period (between
27 B.C. and
14 A.D.). It was discovered
accidentally
in 1929. Excavations conducted
between 1937 and 1938 brought the
orchestra, the scaena and part of the
auditorium to light. The band of semicircular shapes has a diameter of13
m. The auditorium has 12 rows of
bleachers and is dug directly into the
bedrock. Many marble sculptures
recovered were preserved and are
now on display at the Museum
“Sigismondo Castromediano” in
Lecce.
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The Theatre
hosted an
audience
of over 5000
spectators
The Temple of Isis
THE LAPIDARIUM The excavations of
Palazzo Castromediano Vernazza, an
architectural complex dating back to the
16th century located in the centre of Lecce,
returned a surprising amount of stone
elements, relevant both to the structures
that the architectural decorations
belonging to the different phases of the
building.
It has blocks and decorative fragments
dating back to the Middle and the Modern
Ages, of which a significant selection is
exhibited.
There are also some polygonal blocks of the
monumental structures of the Roman period
(The Sanctuary of Isis), found out during the
demolition stages
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The port of Hadrian in San Cataldo
The port was built by the Emperor Hadrian in the second century AD. It is
indicated by literary sources as the place where Octavian disembarked on
his journey back from the East at Caesar’s death in 44 BC. The Emperor
built the harbor area to provide an anchoring, in case of storm, to the
boats that look ​the route between Brindisi and Otranto - other two ports of
Roman origin. The ancient port played a decisive role between the late
Republican Age and the first Imperial Age, when the Lupiae municipium
experienced a strong economic and cultural boom.
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Images of the
reconstruction of
the port in 3d
The harbour facing the East
was built by the Emperor
Hadrian in the second century
after Christ. Perhaps the port
was the site where Octavian
disembarked on his way to
Rome after the death of
Ceasar.