The Large Palaestra of Pompeii (also known as the Great Gymnasium) is of a large open air square, approximately 140 x 140 m, surrounded by porticoes. Built in the Augustan period, at the beginning of the 1st century CE, as a space to practise gymnastics and athletics.
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