Palatine Stadium Stadio Palatino In Rome, Italy. Royalty-Free Stock Photography

Immediately adjacent to the Flavian palace of Severus is the Hippodrome of Domitian or Stadium 160 x 48 m. This is a structure which has the appearance of a Roman Circus and whose name means Circus in Greek, but is too small to accommodate chariots. Hippodromes were originally areas for exercising horses, but later in Rome, Hippodrome was used to describe elongated rectangular gardens. It can also be described as a Greek Stadium that is a venue for foot races.