Teatro Grande

Pompeii


The 2nd-century-BC Teatro Grande was a huge 5000-seat theatre carved into the lava mass on which Pompeii was originally built. The site hosts the annual Pompeii Theatrum Mundi, a summer season of classical theatre.


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