File:Palestra, Pompeii.jpg

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Summary

Personal photo, 1999 <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Pompeii" class="mw-redirect" title="Pompeii">Pompeii</a> <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gymnasium_(ancient_Greece)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gymnasium (ancient Greece) (page does not exist)">gymnasium</a> seen from the top of the stadium wall. The depression center left was filled with water and used for swimming practice and mock naval battles. To the right (partially obscured by a tree trunk) is a line of carbonized tree stumps, the remains of the trees (each one hundreds of years old) of the palaestra burned in the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Volcanic_eruption" title="Volcanic eruption">volcanic eruption</a> of 79. Between them and the colonnade, a line of saplings recently planted as replacement.

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current20:05, 4 January 2017Thumbnail for version as of 20:05, 4 January 2017739 × 251 (82 KB)127.0.0.1 (talk)<p>Personal photo, 1999 <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Pompeii" class="mw-redirect" title="Pompeii">Pompeii</a> <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gymnasium_(ancient_Greece)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gymnasium (ancient Greece) (page does not exist)">gymnasium</a> seen from the top of the stadium wall. The depression center left was filled with water and used for swimming practice and mock naval battles. To the right (partially obscured by a tree trunk) is a line of carbonized tree stumps, the remains of the trees (each one hundreds of years old) of the palaestra burned in the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Volcanic_eruption" title="Volcanic eruption">volcanic eruption</a> of 79. Between them and the colonnade, a line of saplings recently planted as replacement. </p>
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