The ROMAN THEATRE remained buried for many centuries. Built at the beginning of the Ist century a.D. (but the perfect alignment with the city road network dates it back to the Ist century b.C.), from the Xth century on its ruins were erected religious buildings and hauses which completely hid the structures of the theatre.

The recovery of the remainings of the theatre, begun in 1834 thanks to a rich veronese, Andrea Monga, who bought all the houses that in the centuries were built in the area, showed that it met the architectonic rules of this type of buildings: the cavea reserved to the spectators, divided in two sections and vertically in quoins; the semicircular orchestra at the foot of the steps; the stage, reserved to the actors. In 1904 the Municipality of Verona acquired the area and continued the renovation until the completion in 70s.

The Theatre is constituted from the remains of the stage building, the orchestra, the cavea, two orders of galleries and 3 junction terraces with the top of the hill. The stage building (of which today only the tufa walls are preserved) originally was as high as the entire cavea and were adorned from statues (now preserved near the theatre entrance) and from rich architectonic decorations. On the scene 3 doors lead to the stage (both still preserved, the eastern one is used as the main entrace to the theatre). Under the stage lay the scene pit, of which quadrangular stone elements are still visible, with the holes in which the ropes sild to raise and lower the curtain. In front of the stage the semicircular level of the orchestra (in the roman theatre reserved for the most important peolple of the city), with flooring remains in coloured marbles; near the cavea, there isthe ditch for the outflow of rain water (the theatre was undecked). The cavea is in white limestone of Valpolicella and it wasn't completely leant to the hill and therefore were built radial support wall, whose remains are still visible. The cavea was isolated from the slope of the hill, from a deep interspace that protected it from water infiltrations and humidity (a view of the interspace is visible from a hall of the Archaeological Museum). Only a part of the western sector of the cavea has been reconstituted. On the top of the steps there are the decked ambulatory and the remains of one overhanging gallery. The two galleries are encircled from a loggia with arches. The access is through a stairway, on which an ionic arch adorned with bulls can be admired. The loggia has been reconstructed in 1912; the arches, where there are recorded the names of the richest families of the roman Verona, probably come from the pediment of the below gallery.