Across the Roman bridge of Ponte Pietra, on the hillside below Castel San Pietro, the Roman Theater was built in the first century during the reign of Augustus and excavated between 1904 and 1939.
Of the theater itself, you can see the remains of the stage building's tufa walls and stones in the stage pit with holes where the ropes were drawn to open and close the curtains.
More remnants are visible of the auditorium, which was built into the hillside in galleries and terraces, including the floor of the orchestra seating with geometric inlaid marble. The theater is the home of the summer Verona Jazz Festival.
