Museo del Teatro de Caesaraugusta

The Museo del Teatro de Caesaraugusta in Zaragoza showcases the ruins of a Roman theater from the first century AD, one of the largest of its kind in Roman Hispania. The foundations were discovered in 1972 during construction work, and the museum opened in 2003 after extensive restoration. You enter the site via special walkways and can view the surviving rows of seats and the remains of the stage beneath a large, translucent polycarbonate cover. The site lies in the area of the former Jewish quarters and also incorporates archaeological traces of medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque buildings. A reconstructed building houses an interpretive center that explains the history of the theater, the genres of drama performed at the time, and the social and political life of the era.