The Teatro Concordia is a film and small-stage community theater in the town of

Marsciano Marsciano is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Perugia in the Italian region Umbria, located about 25 km south of Perugia. Marsciano borders the following municipalities: Collazzone, Deruta, Fratta Todina, Perugia, Piegaro, ...

in the

province of Perugia The province of Perugia () is the larger of the two provinces in the Umbria region of Italy, comprising two-thirds of both the area and population of the region. Its capital is the city of Perugia. The province covered all of Umbria until 1927, w ...

, region of

Umbria Umbria ( ; ) is a Regions of Italy, region of central Italy. It includes Lake Trasimeno and Cascata delle Marmore, Marmore Falls, and is crossed by the Tiber. It is the only landlocked region on the Italian Peninsula, Apennine Peninsula. The re ...

, Italy. The seating and stage area of the theater hall itself is no longer the original 19th-century construction. Of the original structure, erected in 1873 by a private company "Della Concordia”, only the eclectic brick facade remains, designed by the engineer Nazarene Biscarini with both

Neo-Romanesque Romanesque Revival (or Neo-Romanesque) is a style of building employed beginning in the mid-19th century inspired by the 11th- and 12th-century Romanesque architecture. Unlike the historic Romanesque style, Romanesque Revival buildings tended t ...

and Gothic Revival architectural elements. The theater itself mostly burned down in a fire during the 1950s, but the brick facade survived. In 1986–1990, the

Comune A (; : , ) is an administrative division of Italy, roughly equivalent to a township or municipality. It is the third-level administrative division of Italy, after regions () and provinces (). The can also have the City status in Italy, titl ...

of Marsciano rebuilt a modern theater with 323 seats. It displays both movies and has a small stage for small performances. The ''sipario'' was painted by Omar Galliani.

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