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Regio
II
Palęstra (Gymnasium)
It is often called Large
Palęstra to distinguish it from the Samnite
gymnasium. It consists of an open square (approximately 140
x 140 m.) surrounded by porticos. Double rows of plane-trees
were planted in the area; today it is still possible to see their casts.
At the center there is a bathing-pool (natatio,
23 x 35 m.). The outer wall was crowned with merlons. The gymnasium was
built near the Amphitheater
during the Augustan period and was used both
for the exercises of the gladiators and as a meeting-place for
youth associations (Juventus Pompeiana)
in order to educate them to the imperial ideology. Parades on foot
and on horseback, battle simulations, duels, discus throwing and
weight-jumping took place inside the gymnasium. The entire wall on the
northern side collapsed during the earthquake of 62, A.D. It was
excavated in the years 1936
and 1951.
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House
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of Venus in the Shell
House
of Julia Felix
| Amphitheater
Palęstra
(Gymnasium)
| Necropolis
of the Nuceria Gate
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