Italica Ruins

Last weekend our group toured the Italica Ruins which are right outside the city of Sevilla. The Italica Ruins are Roman ruins which reminded me a lot of the Colleseum in Rome. Before visiting, I thought that the only Roman ruins were in Rome, so it was really intersesting to learn that they are in Spain as well. The biggest part of the ruins was a huge amphitheatre were gladiator fights would take place for the public to watch. The theatre was almost exactly like a smaller Colleseum, but we got to walk inside of the tunnels where the gladiators would have walked and got to go right out onto the theatre floor where the fights took place. We could even get close enough to the tunnel where the lions would come out to see the claw marks from the lions on the concrete which are still left from when there were fights hundreds of years ago.

After the amphitheatre we went to see the ruins that are left from the Roman houses that were in the area. Most of them were houses of noble families and the only parts that were left were the floors of the houses. The floors all had beautiful mosaics that represented different things (kind of missed the details about this part because our tour was in Spanish so hard to catch everything). It was amazing that the color still stayed in some of the tiles of the mosaics!

After the ruins we headed to the beach. It was a good beach day because it was very very hot but we were once again suprised at first to see that basically all of the women and younger girls as well were topless!