ARENA, Interior - Ai Voice

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The interior of the Verona Arena appears as a majestic stone oval, remarkably well preserved despite its two thousand years of history and continuous use. The cavea, or tiered seating area, was originally designed to hold about 30,000 spectators, and even today its concentric rings of stone, rising toward the sky, create a breathtaking sense of space and grandeur.

At the center lies the arena floor itself, a vast elliptical space that, in Roman times, hosted gladiatorial combats, animal hunts, and other public spectacles.

Access to the seating was provided through the vomitoria — corridors and passageways that allowed for the swift entry and exit of large crowds, a brilliant example of advanced Roman engineering....

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