The story of the unearthing of Málaga's Roman theater is almost as interesting as the theater itself. Dating from the time of Augustus (1st century AD), it was rediscovered in 1951 by workers building the foundations for a new Casa de Cultura. Today the theater sits fully exposed beneath the walls of the Alcazaba. A small interpretive center next door outlines its history and displays a few artifacts shoveled from its crusty foundations.
The Casa de Cultura was built with the freshly discovered theater left half-exposed next to it, but in 1994, with historians placing greater weight on cultural heritage, the casa was demolished just 38 years after its construction to allow excavations on the theater to continue.
