Its curved auditorium has 28 rows of marble seats in two tiers, facing a stage building with columns and decorated friezes. Some seats still bear carved inscriptions naming the city quarters that once sat there. Far from being just a ruin, the theatre comes back to life every summer with concerts, opera and theatre performances under the open sky. Visitors can also look down into it from the streets of the Old Town above.
Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Roman Theatre of Plovdiv
The Roman Theatre of Plovdiv, ancient Philippopolis, is one of the best-preserved ancient theatres in the Balkans. It was built in the 1st century AD, probably under Emperor Domitian, and set into the slope of the Old Town hills. Lost for centuries, it was rediscovered in the early 1970s after a landslide and carefully restored, largely reusing its original stone and marble.
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