Going back probably to the III century a.C., the greek-roman theatre of Taormina is sure the largest in Sicily, after that one of Siracuse. It is supposed that they were the Tauromeniti Greeks to devise and to construct the theatre, the Roman later on, widened it. The greek-roman theatre is divided in three parts: the scene, the orchestra the cavea. The scene is that part where the actors acted and still six bases of columns and four columns of style are conserved corinzio that they were raised after 1860.

 

The cavea is formed from the gradinata that left from the bottom and went salting towards the high, where took to place the spectators. The steps of the gradinata were dig  in the cliff, in absence of this came constructed in masonry. The orchestra is the flat part more lowland than all the theatre. Here you the songer of the musical instruments that accompanied the development of the tragedy or the commedia that the actors.

 

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