Roman circus of Toledo

In addition, the location of sports facilities on that site (whose need to take advantage of part of the subsoil is zero), will have allowed its conservation in an acceptable state.

A Roman amphitheatre, in the neighborhood of Covachuelas, was more distant than the circus, on the central section of Calle Honda.

Although little investigated, since more than half of the infrastructure still remains unexcavated, its similarities with other circuses of the Peninsula, like the one at Emerita Augusta, allow to affirm that its capacity had to be between the 15,000 or 30,000 spectators, which initially proved sufficient to meet the needs of the city as well as other surrounding towns.

The archaeological remains of the circus are important since it allows to affirm that, given its dimensions, its capacity and comparing it with those of other Hispanic-Roman cities of the Peninsula, Toledo must have been in Roman times a city that played an important role in the political and legal administration of the Peninsula.

During the Late Middle Ages, it is possible that the plunder would end, although the buildings were abandoned on the outskirts of the medieval city, which made it easier for the inhabitants to bury them and the Toledans forget the location of these.