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The Palais Gallien is the last visible Roman ruin in Bordeaux — the remains of a 2nd-century amphitheatre that once seated up to 15,000 spectators for gladiatorial combat. Only a few arches survive, quietly embedded in a residential neighborhood.
Built in the late 2nd or early 3rd century AD during the peak of Roman Burdigala, the amphitheatre fell into ruin after the fall of the Roman Empire. Much of its stone was quarried for other buildings over the centuries. The surviving fragments were classified as a historic monument in 1840.