What Are Amphitheaters Used for Today

In 1932, the amphitheatre was adapted for modern theatre, military ceremonies and public meetings. Today, with a capacity of 5,000, it holds musical concerts and film festivals and even held two professional hockey games.

What are Amphitheatre used for?

Essentially, amphitheatres were used for gladiator combats, chariot races, animal slaying and executions. Other venues were used for other sporting and cultural activities: theatres were used for staging plays, pantomimes, choral events and orations; circuses and hippodromes for racing events; and stadia for athletics.

Is the Colosseum used today?

The Colosseum today is now a major tourist attraction in Rome with thousands of tourists each year entering to view the interior arena. There is now a museum dedicated to Eros in the upper floor of the outer wall of the building. Part of the arena floor has been re-floored.