page_title: Stara Zagora
section_title: Ancient Monuments
hierarchical_section_title: Stara Zagora / History / Ancient Monuments
caption_attribution_description: English: Model of south west quarter
context_page_description: Stara Zagora is the sixth-largest city in Bulgaria, and the administrative capital of the homonymous Stara Zagora Province located in the historical region of Thrace.
context_section_description: Many of the monuments from the Roman city have been excavated and are visible in situ today and include:
  City walls
  The "Antique" Forum
  Roman city streets and buildings
  The Roman Baths
  4th-6th c. public building with mosaics
  4th c. private house with mosaics of Silenus with Bacchantes and of Dionysus's Procession
  South city gate
  Thracian Tomb
  Overlooking the "antique" forum is an unusual building in the form of a monumental auditorium in the shape of a theatre.
caption: Model of south west quarter showing double walls and Antique forum with "auditorium"
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