Pula Arena
The roman amphitheater in Pula ( Croatia) (in Croatian Pulska Arena) with a capacity of 23,000 visitors, the sixth largest of its kind was built this amphitheater in year 2 BC to 14 AD under Emperor Augustus. Vespasian ( 69-79 AD), the principal of the Colosseum in Rome, left the Oval expand to its current size of 132 times 105 meters. As the legend tells, he wanted to fulfill a wish of his coming from Pula lover. The amphitheater consisted of two superposed arcades with 72 sheets of white limestone. The upper floor is pierced by 64 rectangular window niches. The building sea side reached a height of 32.45 meters. Since rejects the construction on the east by a hill, the facade there is much lower and in the lower row of arches are 32 arches have been an adaptation to the terrain omitted partially or completely. Inside was followed by the rows of seats to the slope. In ancient times, the arena for gladiator fights and sometimes even for rendering naumachiae, so naval battles served.
In recent years, the amphitheater was the venue for a film festival, 1993, it was replaced by the Pula Film Festival and the cultural events of the Histria Festival. For operas, concerts, theater and film, the historical arena is an ideal place with its brilliant acoustics. Musicians such as Sting, Julio Iglesias, Luciano Pavarotti, Elton John, Zucchero, Anastacia, Norah Jones, Alanis Morissette and others appeared here. 1962, the building served in the Italian sword and sandal film One against Rome (Solo contro Roma) had with some completely occupied with extras ranks as the filming location for those scenes, the gladiator fights to content.