Plovdiv Roman Theatre

The Roman theatre of Plovdiv is one of the world's best-safeguarded old theaters, situated in the downtown area of Plovdiv, Bulgaria. It was built in the 90s of the first century AD, most likely under the rulership of Emperor Domitian. The auditorium can have in the vicinity of 5000 and 7000 onlookers and it is at present being used. The onlooker seats are orientated toward the south, towards the old city in the marsh and the Rhodope Mountains. In layout, the venue is a semi-hover with an external distance across of 82 meters. The theater itself is separated into the seating segment amphitheater and the stage symphony.

The assembly room, the territory in which individuals accumulated, is dug out of a slope or slant, while the external radian seats required auxiliary help and strong holding dividers. The hall was not roofed. The onlooker seats cavea encompass the stage – the ensemble – which has the state of a horseshoe, 26.64 meters in length, incorporates 28 concentric lines of marble seats, isolated into two levels by a path diazoma. The upper piece of the levels is hindered by tight outspread stairways, which partition the cavea into wedge-formed divisions kerkides. The performance center additionally has a platform, which underpins the segments of the scaenae frons.