MERIDA'S ROMAN THEATRE
This theater was inaugurated around the year
15B.C by the consul Marco Vispano Agripa. The architect of a his monument was
José Mendez-Pidal. Trough the years it suffered several changes. One of
the most important ones was the one made by the emperor Trajano when it was
built the forehead stage. When the Roman Empire turned Christian, the theater
was covered with sand as the Christians considered immoral that kind of
representations.
This
theater was built to host six thousand viewers. The terraces were distributed
in caveas summa, media and according with their social classes. The first thing
the archeologists saw were the suma cavea terraces.
The excavations of the theater started in 1910
and it has been an important reconstruction labor during the twentieth century.
The first modern representation took place on
1933 with the play Séneca of Miguel de Unamuno. This was the
beginning of the Festival de Teatro Clásico
de Mérida.
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