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Verona Arena
The Verona Arena (''Arena di Verona'') is a Roman amphitheatre in Piazza Bra in Verona, Italy built in 1st century. It is still in use today and is internationally famous for the large-scale opera performances given there. It is one of the best preserved ancient structures of its kind. In ancient times, nearly 30,000 people was the housing capacity of the Arena. Nowadays, for security reasons, the maximum attendance is of 15,000 people.
==Amphitheatre==
The building itself was built in AD 30 on a site which was then beyond the city walls. The ''ludi'' (shows and games) staged there were so famous that spectators came from many other places, often far away, to witness them. The amphitheatre could host more than 30,000 spectators in ancient times.
The round façade of the building was originally composed of white and pink limestone from Valpolicella, but after a major earthquake in 1117, which almost completely destroyed the structure's outer ring, except for the so-called "ala", the stone was quarried for re-use in other buildings. Nevertheless it impressed medieval visitors to the city, one of whom considered it to have been a labyrinth, without ingress or egress.〔''altum lambyrintum in quo nescitur ingressus et egressus'', quoted in Roberto Weiss, ''The Renaissance Discovery of Classical Antiquity'', 1969:117 and note 7.〕 Ciriaco d'Ancona was filled with admiration for the way it had been built and Giovanni Antonio Panteo's civic panegyric ''De laudibus veronae'', 1483, remarked that it struck the viewer as a construction that was more than human.〔Weiss 1969.〕
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