Piazza Anfiteatro is the main square in the city of Lucca and is located on the site where the Roman amphitheatre once stood. Today it is a very nice "closed" square, which has inherited the name and the elliptical shape from its distant relative, overlooked by beautiful buildings with facades in different shades of yellow – from pastel to deep yellow – and which, at street level, is a succession of small tables of bars and restaurants (inside some of them you can see the ruins of the ancient Roman amphitheatre). The square in its current structure was built in the Middle Ages. During that period it was called with the name of "Parlascio", a mispronunciation of the name paralisium (amphitheater) which, influenced by the word "talk", began to indicate the place where people stopped to talk.
