Les Arènes d'Arles

Arles Amphitheatre (known in French as Les Arènes d'Arles) is a Roman amphitheatre located in the southern French city of Arles. The city is situated in the Bouches-du-Rhône department of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, and has been dubbed the ‘soul of Provence’. Arles Amphitheatre is one of the city’s most important and impressive Roman structures. Other monuments from this period of the city’s history include the Baths of Constantine, the theatre, and the Alyscamps ( a Roman necropolis). Like other amphitheatres throughout the Roman world, the one at Arles hosted spectacles that entertained the masses. This function was lost following the fall of the Roman Empire but has been revived in modern times. Arles Amphitheatre is a UNESCO World Heritage