Teatro Villamarta - Jerez de la Frontera - Andalusia

The Villamarta Theater in Jerez de la Frontera is a theater designed in Andalusian regionalist style by Teodoro Anasagasti, built in 1926 .

In the early 1920s, King Alfonso XIII proposed to the aristocrat of Jerez, Álvaro Dávila y Agreda, Marquis of Villamarta, that a theater be built to meet the demands of the wealthy upper class, mainly aristocrats who dominated the growing wine industry.

This beautiful theater is an amalgam of modernism with reminiscences of Gaudí and a certain Cubist flavor. As a curiosity, it is one of the first buildings in Spain to use concrete.

The layout of the audience in relation to the stage is frontal and with a capacity of 1,226 spectators divided into three main zones. The Theater's programming includes all kinds of activities ; opera, theater, ballet, flamenco, classical music, etc., so the stage equipment is prepared for all these types of events.

Willem Vandenameele