{"id":218,"date":"2007-12-22T22:29:50","date_gmt":"2007-12-22T12:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/?p=218"},"modified":"2007-12-22T22:29:50","modified_gmt":"2007-12-22T12:29:50","slug":"theatre-of-delphi-delphi-ancient-greece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/greece\/delphi-greece\/theatre-of-delphi-delphi-ancient-greece","title":{"rendered":"Theatre of Delphi &#8211; Delphi, Ancient Greece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"float: right\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-1009507070974015\";\r\ngoogle_alternate_ad_url = \"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/google_adsense_script.html\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\ngoogle_ad_format = \"300x250_as\";\r\ngoogle_ad_type = \"text_image\";\r\n\/\/2007-06-30: TSBlog 300x250\r\ngoogle_ad_channel = \"2928184950\";\r\ngoogle_color_border = \"FFFFFF\";\r\ngoogle_color_bg = 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alt=\"Theater of Delphi, Ancient Greece\" height=\"85\" style=\"width: 110px; height: 85px\" title=\"Theater of Delphi, Ancient Greece\" \/><\/a>4th <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Destination\/v\/Greece\/MainlandGreece\/Delphi\/mainlandgreece_0116.jpg.html\" title=\"Theater of Delphi, Ancient Greece\"><\/a>century B.C. from local Parnassus limestone, the Delphi amphitheatre comprises 35 rows of seats, accommodating some 5,000 spectators.\u00a0 The lower tiers of seats were built during the Hellenistic and Roman <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Destination\/v\/Greece\/MainlandGreece\/Delphi\/AJP_3241.jpg.html\" title=\"Theater of Delphi, Ancient Greece\"><\/a>periods.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Destination\/v\/Greece\/MainlandGreece\/Delphi\/AJP_3241.jpg.html\" title=\"Theater of Delphi, Ancient Greece\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" width=\"110\" 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