page_title: Theatre Circo
section_title: Architecture
hierarchical_section_title: Theatre Circo / Architecture
caption_attribution_description: English: Theatro Circo, in Braga, Portugal.
context_page_description: The Theatre Circo is a 20th-century, Portuguese revivalist theatre, in the civil parish of São João do Souto, municipality of Braga. Designed by the architect João de Moura Coutinho, it was first inaugurated on 21 April 1915 with a performance of Ruggero Leoncavallo's operetta La reginetta delle rose.
  Following a storied history that included the first talking films, operas and public performances, the building was restored by the municipal council of Braga, and reopened in 2006.
context_section_description: The theatre is located between other buildings, on the corner of Rua Gonçalo Sampaio with Avenida da Liberdade; on one of the principal avenues in the city, the Circo is transited by automobile traffic and pedestrian activity. It is part of frontal facade of a few examples of civil eclectic architecture.
  It is a rectangular layout, composed of two adjacent bodies, with staggered horizontal volumes, and the roofs covered in tile. The facades include two registers, plastered and painted rose, over a granite foundation, while topped by a cornice and architrave in granite.
  Main facade facing east, of five panels, those at the extreme ends indented, at the level of the upper register. Its centre is marked, by panel stone, with three arched doors, surmounted by balcony topped by lintel, on large corbels, with wrought iron guard. Three doors open at the level of the balcony, each between Ionic columns with wreaths, supporting a cornice, limited by two figureheads with frieze decorated with phytomorphic elements. In turn, the friezes crown a cornice topped sculpted urns, limited by step pyramids. The inscription on the frieze of the principal facade, decorated in phytomorphic elements in bronze, is the title TEATRO CIRCO.
  The flanking sections of the principal entranceway, also in granite stone, include three arched doorways surmounted by three rectangular windows and sill, with decorative motifs on the lintels.
  The south facade, is marked by three arched doors, similarly topped by wrought iron balcony, with rectangular windows and sills with decorative lintel motifs.
caption: The cupola, showing the panelled arches of red, white and gold, and arch windows
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