Torti Theater;;The Teatro Torti is in Piazza San Silvestri;the main square of Bevagna;and is part of—together with the Civic Museum and the Roman Thermal Baths Mosaic—the Museums City Circuit;the Circuito Museale Cittadino.;It was built in 1886;on a design of the architect Antonio Martini;inside the old Palazzo dei Consoli;which was the old municipal premises until the 1832 earthquake;and it is dedicated to the man of letters Francesco Torti.;Its construction was strongly desired by the townspeople;who reunited in a promoting committee in 1871.The inauguration was held the evening of 28 August 1886;and for the occasion Alferdo Lupi;the Impresario;set the scene for the representation of the Opera of the Ernani—of Giuseppe Verdi—together with the Educande di Sorrento.;On the ground floor;a Loggia still remains covered by three majestic Gothic arches and a smaller one;which was probably used as an entrance to a commercial space.;It is one of the smallest theaters of Umbria;there are only 251 seats;but it is finely decorated and contains interesting paintings of the 19th century.;Its floor plan is horseshoe-shaped;there are three orders of balconies—galleries—and a loggia;the parapet is made of a series of pig-iron columns.;The ceiling;frescoed by Mariano Piervittori;represents The Dancing Muses.The curtain is original and was painted by Domenico Bruchi;with Propertius Pointing to Torti His Fatherland;in 1886.During the 1994 restoration work;another curtain was painted by Luigi Frappi;a painter from Bevagna;depicting the Clitunno River with a poetical cippus and a small Temple.;On the coat of arms above the curtain dating from 1380;donated by Pope Innocent IV;one can read the letters ”OsF” that stands for the Latin motto “Ob servatam Fidem” [For Having Preserved and Followed Faith in the Church].;After the work of restoration the theater has been constantly active.