Editing Caesaraugusta (section)

=== Theater ===
[[File:Teatro Romano Cesaraugusta-vista desde arriba-3.jpg|thumb|370x370px|Theater of Caesaraugusta.]]
{{Main|Roman Theater (Zaragoza)}}
To this period also belongs the major work of the theater, whose construction began at the end of the government of [[Tiberius]] and was completed in the time of [[Claudius]] around 50 A.D. It occupied a site that had been destined for this theatrical infrastructure since the colonial planning of the period of Caesar Augustus.

It was inspired by the model of the [[Theatre of Marcellus]] of [[Rome]]. A concrete structure (''[[Roman concrete|opus caementicium]]'') was used in its construction to raise the grandstand that, in its exterior façade of three floors and twenty-two meters high, was covered with marble slabs or ''[[opus quadratum]]'' ashlars offering a monumental decoration.

It had, however, a singular independent access from the central door of the façade to the orchestra of perpendicular layout to the tables or scena and that ran like an axis through the theater for the use of the authorities, who thus had direct access to the seats reserved for them in the orchestral semicircle. This exclusive access can also be seen in the theaters of [[Turin]] or [[Minturno]] —although it is unique among those of [[Roman Hispania]]— and may be due to the variety of shows, not only dramatic, but perhaps also [[Gladiator|gladiatorial]], which would be held there.

It is one of the largest theaters in [[Hispania]], with a surface area of 7,000 square meters (106 m in diameter) and a capacity for approximately 6,000 spectators.