Location Sagunto, Spain Criteria Monument Province Province of Valencia Designated as world heritage site 1896 | Type Non-movable Reference no. RI-51-0000073 Phone +34 962 61 72 67 | |
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Address Plaza Facundo Roca, s/n, 46500 Sagunto, Valencia, Spain Similar Castillo de Sagunto, Cartuja de Vall de Crist, Santuario de la Cueva Sa, Porta Coeli Charterhouse, Museo Histórico de Sagunto | ||
Teatro romano de sagunto valencia
The Teatro romano de Sagunto (Spanish: Teatre romano) is a Roman theatre located in Sagunto, Spain. It was declared Bien de Interés Cultural in 1896. The Roman Theatre of Sagunto is located at the foot of the mountain crowned by the Castle. It occupies the intermediate terrace, between the city and the upper platform chaired by the Forum, Civic Center of the municipality, responding to an urban planning of the times of Emperor Augustus. It was built in the middle of the first century, using the slope of the mountain. It consists of two distinct parts: the cavea or grandstands, semicircular and composed by three orders of stands and the scene, which rises to the height of the top of the grandstands porch. It is semicircular in shape and can seat 8,000 spectators.