Theatre · Mérida, Spain

Roman Theatre

Built in 15 BC, buried for centuries, and staging Greek and Roman drama every summer since 1933.

Roman Theatre is in Mérida, and this is Mérida — the atlas draws Europe in one projection whose finest unit is about four kilometres, so it maps the town rather than the street. The frame is about 580 km across and 210 km deep at this latitude. Coastline from Natural Earth, public domain. The full map →

Give it 90 minutes · Open year-round · 38.915°N, -6.338°E

Accessibility

Not documented. EuropeDoor holds no step-free access, hearing loop or accessible toilet information for any place, and inventing it would be worse than the gap — the position in full.

Getting there

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Mérida · Extremadura · Spain

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What happens here

Experiences tied to this place, and how each one is tied to it — standing on it, starting from it, or looking at it.

Classical drama in a Roman theatre

Greek and Roman plays staged every July and August in the theatre they were written for, which is a different experience from reading them.

Happens here

The record

What this atlas holds about Roman Theatre, and nothing it does not.

Kind: Theatre
Give it: 90 minutes
Season: Open year-round
Where: 38.915°N, -6.338°E
In: Mérida