>>3752401Nowadays the site is completely restored and is used actively by companies to reenact classic representations and offer public musical concerts. It lead to several other discoveries and Merida is now one of the most complete and best preserved roman sites in Europe, besides Rome, Pompei and Ostia Antica.
Given the fact that it was only discovered in the XIX century visitors have to climb down several meters, giving a great perspective of how much was underground and how the roman capital Emerita Augusta remained hidden to the locals for fifteen centuries.
