Teatro Romano di Verona
The Teatro Romano di Verona is an ancient Roman theater in the northern Italian city of Verona in Veneto . It is located in the immediate vicinity of the center of the old town on the left bank of the Adige at the distinctive bend in the river, about 70 meters downstream of the Ponte Pietra and 1.1 kilometers north-northeast of the Arena di Verona . The 105 meter wide semicircle of the theater opens to the river side and is located at the foot of the Colle San Pietro with the Castel San Pietro .
history
The theater was built around 20 BC. BC as a magnificent, large building with a mighty scaena (stage complex ), an orchestra , expansive marble tiers , several arcades and two richly decorated entrances. The building was equipped with numerous statues and loggias and for a long time served as a venue for drama performances. After the fall of the Roman Empire , however, the theater fell into disrepair as a result of the weather and lack of maintenance.
In 1834 Andrea Monga , who came from Verona, bought the houses and huts that had meanwhile been built above the theater at his own expense and had them demolished. As a result, he also financed the excavation and the partial reconstruction of the ancient complex. The upper tiers had been preserved, but the lower tiers, like the entire monumental front facing the river, had fallen into disrepair and could no longer be reconstructed.
Nowadays, the Teatro Romano di Verona is open to visitors and is a popular tourist attraction. In the area of the audience rows, architectural decorative elements from the original building, inscriptions and stone monuments from the Roman era have been preserved. At irregular intervals there are again demonstrations on the stage, for which the dilapidated lower rows of seats have been replaced by plastic chairs. Up the Colle San Pietro there are numerous ruins that belong to the former ancient theater complex, further up the slope is the Archaeological Museum in the Roman Theater in the walls of the former monastery of the Jesuits .
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Coordinates: 45 ° 26 ′ 51 ″ N , 11 ° 0 ′ 6 ″ E