AUGUSTA PRAETORIA (Aosta), ancient
Regio XI, modern Italy.
COORDINATES: 45º44’18.83’’N
// 7º19’20.42’’E
TIPOLOGY: Roman
theatre.
DATE: First
I A.D.
TRANSFORMATIONS:
CAPACITY: 4.000
spectators.
CAVEA: Facing
Nort-Northwest. 59,6 m. diameter. It´s not known how was exactly the maenianum, buy rows in ima were divided in 3 cunei.
ORCHESTRA: 18,8
m diameter including bisellia (12,7
m.)
STAGE
BUILDING: The scaenae
frons is very well preserved, one of the best in the ancient world; it´s
rectilinear and had two storeys. Proscaenium
with 3 curved and 2 rectangular niches; there’s aulaeum remains. Pulpitum was
45,5x6,9 m.-8,45 including proscaenium-.
LOCATION: The
ancient theatre is in Aosta old town. 120 klm. north from Torino.
MY BEDSIDE TABLE: Tosi, Giovana; “Gli
edificio per spettacoli nell’Italia romana”. Roma, Quasar, 2003. //
Courtois, Catherine; “Le bâtiment de
scène des théâtres d’Italie et de Sicile”. Providence,
Louvain-la.Neuve, 1989. // Sear, Frank; “Roman
theatres: an architectural study”. Oxford University Press, 2006. // Ciancio
Rossetto, Paola; Giuseppina Pisani Sartorio (eds); “Teatri Greci e Romani:
alle origini del linguaggio rappresentato”. Rome: SEAT,
1995. // Izenour,
George. Roofed Theaters of Classical Antiquity. Yale
University Press, 1992. // “Teatri
antichi nell’area del Mediterraneo”. Palermo, I Quaderni di Palazzo Montalbo, 2004.
OUT OF PRINT: A
journey to the Alps, not for climbing mounts or ski. Like Anibal crossing the
Alps, but not in an elephant, the Spanish king do not let live them, in a Fiat,
from Switzerland to Italy, the roman steps dyed white.
