The theatre
The discovery of the monument began in 1907 when the young student Joseph Sautel started to work on a thesis about Vasio and started to dig. A holy dedication to Claudius and his head prove that in the middle of the 1st. c. A. D. the theatre was already built.
The theatre was located at the North part of the gallo-roman town. Today, some remains of a Temple podium, a craftmen’s district and the Peacock Villa are to be found close to it (Eastern side), as well as the traces of the acqueduct that came down from the north, ran under the theatre, and joined the water-tower situated on the South-East of the hill.
The cavea, the part of the theatre reserved for the audience, was built against the hill (the diameter measured 96 m), a circulating gallery and a surrounding wall. To enter the cavea, spectators could use stairways, “vomitories”, and side-passages. The lower tiers were separated from the orchestra (diameter of 30 m) by a circular gang-way and the balteus : a small stone barrier.
