Málaga Roman Theatre
Sunken Roman stage and stone tiers beside a glass-pyramid view of ancient fish-sauce salting vats.
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This guide to the Málaga Roman Theatre uncovers what the ancient city built its wealth on: garum, a pungent fermented fish sauce Rome prized as a luxury, cured in vats you can still see through a glass pyramid beside the theatre. It follows how Malaca's spot on the tuna migration route made local producers rich, and how the theatre itself rose in the first century under Augustus to entertain the workers and merchants running that trade, seating thousands in strict social tiers. You'll hear how the theatre fell out of use, got quarried for stone, and vanished beneath the city for centuries. Stand between the stage and the vats to catch both halves of Malaga's oldest business at once.
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