Published in The New Country 12 December 2010
Lecce / Port San Biagio and the Roman Theatre
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In this second Sunday in town along Viale Francesco Lo Re, where, at the Piazza of Italy addorme with the monument dedicated to soldiers fallen in war. It faces south gate Porta San Biagio last of the ancient city walls. Porta San Biagio was built around the first half of the sixteenth century as it was part of the reorganization program of the defensive structures, but after the demolition of the building Originally, the great arch was rebuilt in 1774 at the behest of the then governor of Terra d'Otranto Thomas Ruff.
Building "defensive", nestled between the historic residential buildings, greets us with a single, monumental arch (archway) flanked by two pairs of stout Doric columns set on massive plinths; the "Greek" entablature, the horizontal architectural element supported by columns and pillars, is classified according to the Doric style and features along the scanning of the classical frieze and metopes triglyphs, the entablature, surmounted by a carved pediment and decorated, culminating with the statue of the patron saint.
Beyond the door is prolonged because of Perroni which resides on the volume since 1667 the church of San Matteo, characterized by a smooth convex bottom side and a concave top, continuing we hardly ever noisy, at least for the night life, by Ferdinand I of Aragon (commonly known as "the way of pubs") which overlooks the elegant and architecturally unfinished church of Santa Chiara. Taking the road that runs along the right side of the church, or because of Ammirati, we meet a few yards, the nice Piazzetta Raimondello Orsini the center of which rests the minute sculptural monument to the most popular leader "of the thirteen of Barletta" that Fanfulla of Lodi. The bronze hooded man of arms shows us the path that leads the fashion show Teatro Romano.
The scenic location of the performance of tragedies and comedies in Lupiae Roman, was probably built in the first century BC, the complex was "carved" into the living mass of limestone and it is derived from the system with steps of the auditorium (area for the public). The stone structure, built with the measure useful in containing the costs of materials, was accidentally discovered in 1929 during some works from the sixteenth-century Roman palace and the palace D'Arpe. The theater could hold at least six thousand people, the auditorium measuring over 75 meters, currently keep only 12 rows of steps, the 'orchestra namely the part devoted to dance in front of the scene is completely preserved and is over 13 meters ; the scene is lost because of the adjacent convent of Santa Chiara. Part of the rich marble decorations that adorned the theater scene has been preserved in the halls of Museo Sigismondo Castromediano.
seventeenth-century buildings, which serve as the architectural setting of the auditorium at the back post, currently home to the headquarters of the Museum of the Roman theater. On this sacred place to pay off the tall bell towers of the cathedral, an image that could delay such an archaic anxiety of control and injury by the most powerful state religion against the secular culture.
Giuseppe Arnesano
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