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Town Theatre

Mestské divadlo Levoča
Town Theatre
Mestské divadlo Levoča
Original function:
theatre/opera
hotel / tavern / guesthouse
Current function:
theatre/opera
Address:
Námestie Majstra Pavla 4/4, 054 01 Levoča
Historical Hungarian county:
Szepes
Country:
Slovakia
GPS coordinates:
49.02706, 20.58898
Google map:

History

Three burgher's houses stood there in the 13th century. In 1590 the town opened a tavern in it. In 1763 the tavern "To the Austrian Emperor" was opened in the building, and in 1770 Emperor Joseph II really stayed in it. It was turned into a theatre between 1841 and 1853. It has been a theatre ever since, and now it is the oldest building in present-day Slovakia that has been continuously used as theatre. It gained its current form in a reconstruction between 1871 and 1872, when a ball room was also created.

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