Cadiz’s Roman Theatre was built in around 70 B.C., when Lucius Cornelius Balbus “the Elder”, born in Cadiz and personal friend of and adviser to Julius Caesar decided to expand the existing city. Use stopped 3rd c. CE. and was plundered from the following century onwards. However, the remains of its imposing structure were used as storerooms, stabling and housing right up to the Middle Ages. It was also used as the foundations for the Moorish fort, referred to as the “Castle of the Theatre” The theater was unearthed in 1980.The most monumental area of the complex, the stage and the portico behind it, have not been unearthed and their ruins remain hidden