{"id":36743,"date":"2022-05-28T17:22:38","date_gmt":"2022-05-28T15:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visitpiacenza.it\/arte-e-cultura\/the-lost-amphitheater\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T17:01:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T15:01:35","slug":"the-lost-amphitheater","status":"publish","type":"arte-e-cultura","link":"https:\/\/visitpiacenza.it\/en\/art-and-culture\/the-lost-amphitheater\/","title":{"rendered":"The lost amphitheatre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Until 68 A.D., Piacenza hoasted an amphitheater.<\/p>\n<p>It was placed outside of the city walls, on the banks of the river Po. According to may sources, it was one of the most impressive monument of Italy.<br \/>\nIt got burned and completely destroyed by the General Cecina. He was chosen by the new emperor Ottone to come over Italy, with the purpose to win on Vitellio&#8217;s army, which was walled exactly in Piacenza.<br \/>\nHe had to struggel entering into the city, which was clearly sided with the enemy.<\/p>\n<p>The General Cecina took revenge by destroying the wonderful amphitheater.<br \/>\nBytheway many historians supposed and explained how this event happened; probably the fire was organised by the help of many neighbouring towns, jelous of Piacenza&#8217;s prosperity time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Until 68 A.D., Piacenza hoasted an amphitheater. It was placed outside of the city walls, on the banks of the river Po. According to may sources, it was one of the most impressive monument of Italy. It got burned and completely destroyed by the General Cecina. He was choosed by the new emperor Ottone to come over Italy, with the purpose to win on Vitellio\u2019s army, which was walled exactly in Piacenza. He had to struggel entering into the city, which was clearly sided with the enemy. The General Cecina took revenge by destroying the wonderful amphitheater. Bytheway many historians supposed and explained how this event happened; probably the fire was organized by the help of many neighbouring towns, jelous of the Piacenza\u2019s prosperity time.","protected":false},"featured_media":38191,"template":"","territorio":[939],"categorie_arte_e_cultura":[928],"class_list":["post-36743","arte-e-cultura","type-arte-e-cultura","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","territorio-piacenza-en","categorie_arte_e_cultura-curiosities"],"acf":{"contatti_iat":false,"location":{"lat":"45.0560605","lng":"9.7101658","address":"Via Bixio, Piacenza"},"accessibilita_disabili":"","orario":"","chiusura_settimanale":"","tariffe":"","iat":30186,"localita":33156},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The lost amphitheatre - Visit Piacenza<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The lost Roman amphitheater of Piacenza was considered the mighttiest and the most imposing monument of Italy.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/visitpiacenza.it\/en\/art-and-culture\/the-lost-amphitheater\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The lost amphitheatre - 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