Life there has changed, of course. People ride around in cars and buses, have telephones and electric lights.
But here and there among the modern buildings one can still find a column or two, an archway,
a stretch of wall, or even an amphitheater dating from olden times.
It was in a city of this kind that the story of Momo took place.
On the southern outskirts of the city, where the fields began and the houses became shabbier and more tumbledown,
the ruins of a small amphitheater lay hidden in a clump of pine trees.
It had never been a grand place, even in the old days, just a place of entertainment for poor folk.
When Momo arrived on the scene, the ruined amphitheater had been almost forgotten.
Its existence was known to a few professors of archaeology,
but they took no further interest in it because there was nothing more to be unearthed there.
It wasn't an attraction to be compared with others in the city, either,
so the few stray tourists or sightseers who visited it from time to time merely clambered around on the grass-grown tiers of seats,
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