Teatro Filodrammatici, Piacenza

The site originally housed the Church and part of the Cistercian Monastery of Santa Franca, built in 1549.

The order was suppressed during Napoleonic rule, and in the following decades, the buildings were used for various secular purposes, including as a barracks.

The Società Filodrammatica was a social group officially recognized in 1825 by the government of Duchess Maria Louise of Austria.

In the early 20th century, the group was granted the site of the church to build a theater.

The theater was inaugurated in 1908 and remained in use until the 1980s when the roof began to deteriorate, leading to its closure.