Events
Greco-Latin Theatre Festival
This theatre festival is for young people, with performances by young people in a unique setting: the Mérida Roman Theatre.
- Explore
- Festival Europeo de Teatro Grecolatino
Learn to love classical culture
Location and Contact:
-
This theatre festival is for young people, with performances by young people in a unique setting: the Mérida Roman Theatre.
In 1997 Santa Eulalia high school started to organise the famous annual European Greco-Latin Theatre Festival in the Roman Theatre in Mérida, during a week in April. Hundreds of young people who are part of theatre groups come from all over Spain to this educational festival, and they perform the classics in a unique setting.
The people who visit the festival are also young – they are high-school students, and the aim of the European Greco-Latin Theatre Festival is to allow young people from all over Spain to discover more about the Greek and Roman cultures through theatre. High-school teachers give the students the texts of Greek and Latin plays, which are previously selected by the festival's organising team, and they prepare them for the festival.
Mérida comes alive thanks to the students that fill the streets during the festival.
-
- Type:
-
- Festival
- Event subject:
-
- Show
- Theatre
- Start date:
- 23/03/2020
- End date:
- 27/03/2020
Theme:
- Events
Target audience:
- Families
- Young people
- Single people
- Senior citizens
- Children
- Couples
- Single people
-
Gallery:
More suggestions
-
National Roman Art Museum in Mérida
The National Roman Art Museum (MNAR) shows the visitor different sides of daily life in the province of Hispania.
-
Museum of Wine Sciences
Learn the wine culture of Tierra de Barros
-
Extremadura Geology Museum
Its collection has made this museum one of the most important of its kind.
-
Museum of Visigoth Art and Culture
The collection of Visigoth pieces in this museum brings together relics from Mérida from the 4th-8th centuries, as the capital of the Diocesis Hispaniarum and as the metropolitan capital of the province of Lusitania
-
Museum of Mérida
The Museum of the Town of Mérida houses a collection on the Mérida-born sculptor and other pieces that take one on a route through the town's history.
-
Roman Circus
Discover one of the most magnificent circuses in the Roman Empire and one of the best preserved.
-
Basilica of Santa Eulalia
A space included in the archaeological complex of Mérida, and a showcase within the regional capital as it contains the town's patron.
-
Parish Church of Santa María
This colossal temple was built over an old church in the 16th century. It has great architectural and artistic value both in the interior and the exterior.
-
La Piedad Park
This is the oldest park in the town of Almendralejo in the province of Badajoz, and an excellent example of early 20th-century public construction.
-
Roman bridge on the Albarregas River
Built when the Roman city of Emerita Augusta was founded, the bridge on the Albarregas River is still in perfect condition and includes some of its original features.