Taormina - Naumachia

The Vicolo Naumachia in Taormina leads to the Naumachia. This is an imposing brick wall 122m/400ft long with niches but, in spite of its name, it has nothing to do with an arena which would have been filled with water and used to stage sea-battles (naumachia); built during the Roman Empire it was probably the boundary wall of a very large well or of a nymphaeum.