Tradition says that Circus was built Tarquins Prisco in a place where there was a famous kidnapping of the Sabine Women Circus area stretches over 600 meters in a hollow between hills, the Aventine and Palatine, once called the valley of Murcia. Circus was the largest in Rome, and were based on a sample all other similar facilities. Circus could hold 200,000 spectators and is the ideal location for events of chariots and quadriga, which took place fifty times a year up to 549 years in which, at Totile, took the last match. A wall divides longitudinally Circus, called "spin", and two of her butt - "Meta." "Back," was decorated with architectural elements of various origins with a towering Egyptian obelisk among them, those who now stands on the Piazza del Popolo.