Teatro Juárez [Guanajuato]
type: Item
label: Teatro Juárez (Guanajuato) @es
description: Theatre building in Guanajuato, Mexico
description: theater in Guanajuato, Mexico @nl
alternative label: Teatro Juárez
EUTA building identifier: 5434
Importance: Not rated
Type of information: Performance venue
Field: architecture
Country: Mexico
City: Guanajuato
opening date: 1903-10-27T00:00:00Z
Wikidata source: Q11704266
GPS: Point(-101.253 21.0153)
Wikidata instance: Q153562
Wikidata instance: Q24354
Carthalia ID: 934
Note: Built 1872-1903. Named in honour of the Mexican president and national hero, Benito Juárez (1806-1872). Opened 27 Oct 1903 with Verdi's Aida, performed by the Italian opera company of Ettore Diog. Used for opera, drama, and variety performances, as a cinema, for carnival balls and for political functions. Since 1972 main performance venue of the Festival Internacional Cervantino.