Fort Antoine Theatre
Coordinates: 43°43′58.99″N 7°25′40.66″E / 43.7330528°N 7.4279611°E
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A late 19th-century view of Fort Antoine and Monte-Carlo.
The Fort Antoine Theatre is a small amphitheatre on the Avenue de la Quarantaine in the Monaco-Ville ward of Monaco. The fort hosts open air plays in the summer months.[1]
The theatre was originally constructed as a fortress in the early 18th-century before its destruction in 1944.[1] Prince Rainier III had the fortress rebuilt as a theatre in 1953.[1] The parapet of the fort is provided by pittosporum hedges.[1] The militaristic nature of its architecture has been retained with a bartizan and a pyramid of cannonballs at the centre of the theatre.[1]
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- 18th-century fortifications
- Theatres completed in 1853
- 1953 establishments in Monaco
- Amphitheaters
- Coastal fortifications
- Fortifications in Monaco
- Theatres in Monaco
- Monaco-Ville
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