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Cervia Town Theatre is a remarkable historical, artistic example of the minor architecture of the 1800s, a century characterized by a great love to the opera theatre.
It is also an important place for social and cultural life in the town. The theatre has been recently given back to the town in all its splendour, after a restoration work.
The hall, in the shape of a horseshoe, contains two rows of 15 boxes each, and a gallery upstairs, with a continued semi-circular balcony. The twelve muses depicted in the triangles in the stalls ceiling are supposed to be the portraits of Cervia's most beautiful women of that time. The original curtain represents some boatmen-scenes carrying salt on their boats, in the background there is a scenery of the town.
The theatre was built in the second half of the 19th century and was unveiled twice, first in 1860 and a second time by Tolmino Baldassarri, who celebrated it in his dialect poem "E' Teātar ad Ziria" (Cervia's Theatre).
Guided tours for groups on booking, information and booking: UFFICIO CULTURA - Comune di Cervia Dott. Cesare Melandri Tel. 0544 979239
town centre, pedestrian area.
Railway station 200 mt.
Bus stop: Circonv. E. Sacchetti 50 mt.
Car and bus parking 100 mt Piazza Resistenza.
