The Teatro Juan Bravo, Segovia's main theatre, sits on the city's Plaza Mayor, a spot once occupied by La Zarzuela theatre and the Reina Victoria cinema. Named after the líder comunero local Juan Bravo, its construction dates from 1917 as the work of the architect Francisco Javier Cabello Dodero. The building was inaugurated in 1918.
The Diputación Provincial de Segovia acquired the theater in 1982, who rehabilitated it and reopened it to the public in 1989. The project was led by the architects Gloria Alcázar, Miguel Ángel García, and Carlos Lavesa, and funded by the Programa de Rehabilitación de 52 Teatros del siglo XIX (1985) del Ministerio de Obras Públicas y Urbanismo and the Ministerio de Cultura.
In 2022, the building was declared a cultural asset of interest with the status of monument.
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Written by Nik Frost
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