Teatro Municipal de Écija

Theatre Sanjuan Écija

Sanjuan theater is a theater of the Spanish city of Écija in the province of Seville. It is located in the central Comedias street. He is currently the Municipal Theatre. Built on an old corral of comedies of the eighteenth century, a fire in 1937 killed him and had to be rebuilt. It was commissioned Jose Granados de la Vega architect committed to the expressionism of the thirties, author among other buildings of the pavilions of Colombia and Guatemala for the Latin American Exhibition of Seville or the Moya Villas and Donostia in Porvenir. EdificioJosé architecture Granados de la Vega, as municipal architect of Ecija performed in 1939, the Art Deco theater. It is a building where harmoniously combine straight lines with curves, inside are the curves which gain weight. The facade is composed of two distinct and separated by a marquee bays, each with three rectangular openings. The upper floor is decorated with circular elements. ConservaciónLa last performance of 1999 with an investment of 3 million Euros was also recovered inside. Inside as on the outside we can see traces of Deco style. Updating the theater has been done with the utmost respect the thirties style that was conceived, respecting both inside and outside the building massing his game straight and curved forms and even the type boat railings.