{"id":6462,"date":"2026-01-09T15:37:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T15:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/pannelli-didattici-e-mappe\/larea-del-teatro\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T12:44:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T12:44:45","slug":"larea-del-teatro","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/educational-panels-and-maps\/larea-del-teatro\/","title":{"rendered":"The area of the theatre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This sector of the city, inside the public area delimited by the boundary stones of Caninius, played an extremely significant role from the Republican period onwards: already in the 1<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0century BC, the important sanctuary of the Quattro Tempietti was built here.<\/p>\n<p>In the area immediately adjacent to it, a vast complex was built in the Augustan period that comprised the theatre, renovated and enlarged during the Imperial period, and a square behind it open towards the Tiber.<\/p>\n<p>The latter was subsequently monumentalized with the construction of a large portico, which became the official headquarters of entrepreneurs and ship owners, whilst a temple was built at its centre surrounded by gardens.<\/p>\n<p>The western edge of the district was occupied by the complex of the Grandi Horrea, Ostia\u2019s main granary, which exploited the connection with the Tiber.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img data-dominant-color=\"c4a68b\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #c4a68b;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5087 not-transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/781_06-1-img001660.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"1488\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/781_06-1-img001660.webp 1488w, https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/781_06-1-img001660-223x300.webp 223w, https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/781_06-1-img001660-762x1024.webp 762w, https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/781_06-1-img001660-768x1032.webp 768w, https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/781_06-1-img001660-1143x1536.webp 1143w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1488px) 100vw, 1488px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This sector of the city, inside the public area delimited by the boundary stones of Caninius, played an extremely significant role from the Republican period onwards: already in the 1st\u00a0century BC, the important sanctuary of the Quattro Tempietti was built here. In the area immediately adjacent to it, a vast complex was built in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":6408,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/page-albero.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6462","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6463,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6462\/revisions\/6463"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}