Editing Pula Arena (section)

==Present day==
The arena is used as a venue for many concerts. Performances have included ones by [[Duran Duran]], [[Foo Fighters]], [[Luciano Pavarotti]], [[Đorđe Balašević]], [[Plácido Domingo]], [[Andrea Bocelli]], [[Nina Badrić]], [[Hillsong United]], [[Patrizio Buanne]], [[José Carreras|Jose Carreras]], [[Dino Merlin]], [[Jamiroquai]], [[Anastacia]], [[Eros Ramazzotti]], [[Maksim Mrvica]], [[Norah Jones]], [[Zucchero]], [[Zdravko Čolić]], [[Alanis Morissette]], [[Sinéad O'Connor]], [[Elton John]], [[Dua Lipa]], [[Robbie Williams]], [[2Cellos]], [[Sting (musician)|Sting]], [[Michael Bolton]], [[Seal (musician)|Seal]], [[Il Divo]], [[Tom Jones (singer)|Tom Jones]], [[Gibonni]], [[Manu Chao]], [[Oliver Dragojević]], [[Leonard Cohen]], [[Grace Jones]], [[Moderat]], [[David Gilmour]], [[Avril Lavigne]], [[Arctic Monkeys]], [[Marko Perković|Thompson]] and Frank Zivkovic. It has a capacity of about 5000 spectators, and also hosts operas, ballets, sports competitions as well as the [[Pula Film Festival]]. The arena is open to the public daily, and the underground passages house exhibitions of [[viticulture]] and [[olive]] growing in Istria.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.pulainfo.hr/where/arena-amphitheater-2 |title=Arena – Amphitheater |publisher=Pula.info |access-date=11 February 2021 |archive-date=31 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210131123249/https://www.pulainfo.hr/where/arena-amphitheater-2 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

[[File:Official Arena Light Postcard photo - Guinness World Record in Largest torchlit image formed by people category, 4013 participants, photo by Duško Marušić Čiči.jpg|thumb|220px|left|Arena Pula broke the [[Guinness World Record]] in the "Largest Human Light Sign" category]]

The arena has also been used for cinematic works such as ''[[Titus (film)|Titus]]'', a 1999 film adaptation of [[Shakespeare]]'s revenge tragedy ''[[Titus Andronicus]]'' by [[Julie Taymor]]. On 8 July 2019, a football match was played between the former players of [[FC Bayern Munich]] and the [[Croatia national football team]] as part of a tourism partnership deal between FC Bayern Munich and the [[Istria County|Istria]] Tourist Board signed in 2018.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Dimitrova |first1=Monika |title=A football match will be played for the first time inside Pula Arena |url=https://www.themayor.eu/en/a/view/a-football-match-will-be-played-for-the-first-time-inside-pula-arena-2862 |work=www.themayor.eu |publisher=TheMayor.EU |date=10 June 2019 |language=en}}</ref> Two professional [[ice hockey]] games were played there on September 14 and 16, 2012;<ref>{{cite web|last=Leahy|first=Sean|title=Here's what hockey in a Roman amphitheatre looked like (Spoiler: It was awesome)|date=17 September 2012 |url=https://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/hockey-roman-amphitheater-looked-spoiler-awesome-181854444--nhl.html|publisher=Yahoo Sports|access-date=18 September 2012}}</ref> [[KHL Medveščak]], a Zagreb-based [[Erste Bank Eishockey Liga]] club, hosted [[HDD Olimpija Ljubljana]] and the [[Vienna Capitals]].