<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphitheater" class="extiw" title="en:Amphitheater">Amphitheater</a> of the ancient roman city of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italica" class="extiw" title="en:Italica">Italica</a>, today municipality of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santiponce" class="extiw" title="en:Santiponce">Santiponce</a>, near Seville, Spain. The amphitheater was built during the reign of emperor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadrian" class="extiw" title="en:Hadrian">Hadrian</a> (117-138) and, with a capacity of 25,000 spectators, was one of the biggest amphitheaters in the Roman Empire. Italica was the first roman city in Hispania and was founded in 206 BC by the great Roman general <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scipio_Africanus" class="extiw" title="en:Scipio Africanus">Publius Cornelius Scipio</a> (later given the nickname <i>Africanus</i>) to settle his victorious veterans from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Punic_War" class="extiw" title="en:Second Punic War">Second Punic War</a> against <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannibal" class="extiw" title="en:Hannibal">Hannibal</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carthaginians" class="extiw" title="en:Carthaginians">Carthaginians</a>.
<bdi><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28147777" class="extiw" title="d:Q28147777"><span title="Spanish photographer (1974-)">Diego Delso</span></a>
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