Teatro Garibaldi
The theater with 320 seats un'agibilità partial to a theater system up as follows: stage, proscenium, horseshoe-shaped room with three tiers and a gallery. Today it has essentially the same structure of the century, except for changes which have affected the service equipment of the stage, as the dressing rooms (made in the home theater set against the back), sanitation and adapt to new rules security. The structures of the wooden boxes were replaced by other steel, but the decorative railings and wooden ceilings, are still the original ones. It currently hosts theater festival, jazz and classical music, cultural and even film screenings.

HISTORY

You can not get news from historical sources, being destroyed municipal archives previous unification of Italy. However, you may have news about the theater, referring to local historians. Remigio Roccella, which is not the case when it was built, says that in 1800 every noble had a right of preference for each shelf, it makes us suppose that the barons had contributed to the founding of the theater. Father E. Franchino cites the report of two experts sent by the Bishop of Syracuse in 1814 to see if Piazza Armerina was likely to accept the new diocese, the report speaks of a theater audience that Santa Maria is able to accommodate numerous people in the audience that in his antlers four orders. The same Franchino, however, cites as the date of construction of the theater in 1820, but most likely those of 1820 were major renovations. Between 1844 and 1847, other important works were made by Thomas Amato sottointendente Barcelona who made reforming the organization of the boxes, reducing the orders to carry out three and making the gallery. The existence of the fourth order confirms that the theater, visited by two experts in 1814, it was her who was to become the theater Garibaldi. In 1852, the walled medieval city collapsed sweeping the porch of the old facade of the theater. There is no news to redesign the facade, from this that this was mutilated the porch until the beginning of the twentieth century. In 1902 the surveyor Pastorelli was commissioned to build the new chart of the theater; prospectus that was moved forward to m. 6.20 compared to the existing so that it may obtain an entrance hall, ticket office, the custodian's room and coffee. After the war, the theater also houses the cinema, but it was closed in 1970 by order of Civil Engineers.