Calle Alcazabilla
Pedestrian lane hugging the hillside where a Roman theatre lay hidden under a modern building for decades.
This guide to Calle Alcazabilla in Málaga starts in 1951, when a construction crew expanding the Casa de la Cultura hit stone that didn't belong to any modern wall. Archaeologists first guessed at an old town wall, until curved stone tiers and a grand entrance passage argued otherwise, dating to the age of Augustus. For decades the half-built cultural centre simply stood over the exposed ruins, archivists and librarians working within a few meters of an ancient stage nobody could properly reach. It took until the nineteen nineties for the city to decide the Roman theatre mattered more than the building sitting on it.
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