Palatine Hill - Stadium of Domitian

(Local Name: Stadio Domiziano) Among the main buildings erected by Domitian (A.D. 81-96) on the Palatine was his Stadium, a running track 160m/525ft long and 47m/155ft across. It is not known whether the public were admitted to the contests and displays in this stadium or whether it was reserved for the entertainment of the Emperor and his personal guests; indeed it is not even certain whether it was actually used for sporting contests at all or whether it was merely designed as a garden in the form of a stadium.

According to tradition St Sebastian was martyred in this stadium.