Palace Halle (Gallic Palace, also called amphitheater Bordeaux) today represents the ruins of the once magnificent amphitheater, which seats up to 15 thousand spectators. The amphitheater was built in the II century and is now the only surviving building Burdigala - the city of Gallo-Roman era, the site of which grew the modern Bordeaux.

The amphitheater was built on the outskirts of Burdigala, the size of its arena, as it was possible to establish on the ruins of 70 to 47 meters, and the size of the building - 130 to 110 meters. When its construction was used masonry in which alternated the bricks and stones were used as wood floors. According to one version, an amphitheater built for the visit to the city of the Roman emperor Caracalla, who ruled in the beginning of III century. Construction of the amphitheater is also mentioned in connection with the name of another emperor - Gallienus, but he later regulations, in the middle of the III century.

In 276, the amphitheater was burned to the ground by the invading Germanic tribes. Since then, the structure survived several pillars and archways, which in later centuries are not treated too gently. In the Middle Ages in the ruins of the Roman theater inhabited by homeless people and fugitives. In the XVII century near the architectural heritage of the Romans formed a dump. During the Great French Revolution, the land on which the amphitheater, declared public property, and the eastern and western portals of the amphitheater was demolished and in their place are two paved streets.

It was only in the XIX century ruins declared a historical monument and take their strengthening, and the building does not seem concerned about the safety of the power of Bordeaux and its citizens. The status of the monument has been assigned to these ruins in 1840. The remains of a Roman amphitheater located in the street of Dr. Albert Barraud.