3D print the Arena of Nîmes
A free, printable model of the Arena of Nîmes, its oval ring of arches, and the dense city blocks and open plaza around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Arena of Nîmes
In Nîmes, in Southern France, stands the Arena of Nîmes, a Roman amphitheater erected around 100 AD, some twenty years after the Colosseum in Rome. It ranks among the world's best-preserved Roman amphitheaters. The building measures 133 m (436 ft) by 101 m (331 ft), and its central arena is 68 m (223 ft) by 38 m (125 ft). The outer wall rises 21 m (69 ft) and has two stories of 60 arcades each. Of the 400 Roman amphitheaters that exist, it is among the 20 largest.
In Roman times it seated 24,000 spectators on 34 tiers of terraces, grouped in four self-contained zones called maeniana. Gladiators fought one another and wild animals there. These contests ended with early medieval Christianity, and the amphitheater became a fortress and later a walled town. Clearing the houses built inside began in 1786, and in the 19th century the arena was restored, with the architect Henri Revoil completing the work in the middle of the century.
The first bullfight in the restored arena took place in 1853, and public events have returned there at regular intervals since then. Two bullfights are held each year as part of the Feria de Nîmes, and the arena also hosts concerts and "The great Roman Games", a reenactment of antiquity. The Festival de Nîmes music festival has been held in the arena each summer from 1997 onward, and the arena was part of the route for the opening stage of the 2017 Vuelta a España.
How it prints
Make this print opens the generator on a 600 m square around the landmark. Buildings print at close to true scale, so the landmark grows with the print size.
| Print size | Landmark height | Scale |
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| 160 mm default | 6 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 8 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 10 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Two rows of arches
- Two tiers of narrow arches circle the whole oval. Print friendly adapts them to the print scale; Full detail keeps every arch on a larger print, and layers of 0.12–0.16 mm keep them crisp.
- Fine details along the rim
- Small posts and ledges run along the top rim of the wall. A larger print size keeps them distinct, and printing slowly helps the thin rim.
- One piece with the ground
- The Arena of Nîmes is joined to the ground in the exported file, and the four-side check found no floating parts, so nothing needs gluing.
- Pick the detail for your nozzle
- In the Buildings settings, set Landmark detail to Print friendly to adapt thin parts and small details to the print scale. Full detail keeps every modeled feature, for larger prints or a finer nozzle.
- Colors
- Buildings, roads, water and ground arrive as separate filament slots in the 3MF. The Arena of Nîmes takes the building color.
- File format
- You get a 3MF for Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer or PrusaSlicer. Any of them can save it as STL if you need one.
About this model
The Arena of Nîmes is one of more than 2,300 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.
Common questions
Is there an Arena of Nîmes STL I can download?
Mini Skyline builds the file for you in your browser and exports 3MF, which every major slicer opens. If you need an STL, open the 3MF in your slicer and export it from there.
How big can I print it?
Any print size from 40 mm across. The Arena of Nîmes grows with the print: about 6 mm tall on the default 160 mm print. For a model larger than your printer bed, Project Mode splits the area into tiles.
Is it free?
Yes. Generation runs in your browser, with no account and nothing behind a paywall.
