My previous post was about light and I shared a photo I took in a tunnel….well, here’s what that tunnel was leading to!
It’s the Roman amphitheatre in Saintes, France.
This must have been a terrifying place to be in its heyday – in the tunnel I mean. I expect the crowds of spectators (around 15,000 of them at a time) would have been excitedly waiting to see what, or who, was going to emerge from the tunnel into the arena. I suspect not many who walked or ran out of this tunnel towards this light returned alive. A shocking thought.
At the entrance to the amphitheatre there is a plaque which gives a little of the history of the place and it mentions how the Roman elite used “bread and circuses” to keep the populace in their control. Have you ever wondered how the present food and entertainment industries might do the same thing nowadays?
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