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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.{{citation needed|date=August 2014}} The [[amphitheatre]] could host more than 30,000 spectators in ancient times.
[[File:Verona Arena Crown Remanant.jpg|thumb|The Verona Arena's ring
The round facade of the building was originally composed of white and pink [[limestone]] from [[Valpolicella]], but after a [[1117 Verona earthquake|major earthquake in 1117]], which almost completely destroyed the structure's outer ring, except for the so-called "ala" (wing), the stone was [[Quarry|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.<ref>''altum lambyrintum<!--lambyrintum in original--> in quo nescitur ingressus et egressus'', quoted in Roberto Weiss, ''The Renaissance Discovery of Classical Antiquity'', 1969:117 and note 7.</ref> [[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.<ref>Weiss 1969.</ref>
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