Arena di Verona
Also known as Verona Arena
30
Roman
theater
The Arena di Verona is a Roman amphitheatre of around 30 CE, built outside the Roman city walls and now standing at the south side of Piazza Bra in the centre of Verona. The plan is a regular ellipse and the construction uses carved…
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- 1117
An earthquake brought down the outer ring of the amphitheatre and left only the short surviving section now called the Ala.
- 1913
The Arena hosted Aida and reopened as an open-air opera theatre, the start of the modern Opera Festival.
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- Geobia · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Camelia.boban · CC BY-SA 4.0
- EliziR · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Wolf Meusel · Public domain
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