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Diocletian's Palace, Split (Italian: Spalato, Latin: Spalatum), Croatia
The palace was built for Diocletian in the early 4th century. The emperor spent the rest of his life here after his abdication. The complex combines the qualities of a luxury residence with a military camp.
The palace was integrated into the urban texture of the medieval Split. It was "discovered" in the 18th century. Robert Adam, the neoclassical architect studied the palace intensively.
The site is included in the World Cultural Heritage list of UNESCO.
Full text version of Robert Adam's book Ruins of the palace of the Emperor Diocletian at Spalatro in Dalmatia:
digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/DLDecArts/DLDecArts-idx...
Split Strike - Best Viewed Large on black
Another Lightning Strike from last year. Stumbled upon this tonight while looking through some pictures, thought I might post it as I haven't had a chance to get out much recently.
The Pompeiian Popular People's Front* assemble on the seats of the large theatre in Pompeii.
The seating has been rebuilt recently (it is reckoned most of the original stone was reclaimed shortly after the eruption and the picture in our guidebook shows wooden planks in their place) - the theatre is actually used for performances now.
It's reckoned the large theatre could have held about 5000 people and probably saw many plays in Oscan, the language of the Samnites. When the area became Roman-ruled, the Samnites were the locals whose culture was very slowly edged out by that of Republican/Imperial Rome.
This was taken using the remote. The camera is resting on seat stones which carry an inscription - this is visible in the foreground. I presume this inscription is what is referred to here:
The theatre of Pompeii could accommodate 5,000 people seated in three different areas which were separated by corridors. The first (called the ima cavea) was situated in the orchestra itself and had four rows of seats which were reserved for the decurions, while the first rows of the media cavea were for the representative of the corporations: one of these was reserved for the eldest of the Holconium brothers and was identified by an inscription in bronze letters. The remaining places right up to the top part (summa cavea) were designated for the ordinary townspeople. (from here)
Next door is a smaller theatre (or odeon), ingeniously called "the small theatre".
* - Monty Python's Life Of Brian references seem particularly apt at Easter time...