In the locality of El Algar, in the municipality of Cartagena, architect Pedro Cerdán designed a modernist work in 1905. This building was inaugurated on January 4, 1907, during the peak of the Cartagena-La Unión mining district.
The building is a teatro a la italiana with a platea and palcos. It preserved a hand-painted proscenium curtain that was recently restored. At one point, the theater was in a very poor state of preservation, leading to a restoration process started in the late 1990s by the Dirección General de Bellas Artes of the Region of Murcia.
This restoration work was completed in 2009, leaving the theater awaiting its reopening. The Teatro Circo Apolo is protected as a Bien de Interés Cultural according to a decree by the Government of the Region of Murcia on March 12, 1998.
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Written by Nicolo Ciampini
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