Theatre Pompeii
The heart of the district, in the center, on the Paseo Latorre, is the Teatro Pompeii. It's all an architectural monument to a city like this, dates from 1926 and has survived earthquakes, winters, the passage of time and technology.
Don Domingo Composto was commissioned architects who Landoff Achilles (Chile) and Renato Schiavon (Italian) building this enormous imposing stage. His idea was that"culture had here a sanctuary, a place worthy families of them, their temple art, and the opportunity to tell their children, their guests and their visitors, here is a theater that nothing retracts from those big cities " . And so it was. $ 500,000 for eight decades. - Was a fortune, that was the price he paid Mr. Composto to the same architects of the Municipal Theatre of Vi�a del Mar.
To understand the generosity of Mr. Composto, know something more of his life. In 1901 Don Sunday Composto Celli arrives in Chile, was 23 and came from the town of Milazzo, on the island of Sicily. He came to work at the firm Bernardo Costa and Company. Valparaiso. On arrival he settled in Valparaiso, where he met Rosalina Scarpati, a young Buenos Aires with whom he married at 29 years of age. A Sunday Composto did very well in business, as well, who built a fortune and in 1914 he went with his family to an inland town of Vina del Mar "almost a village, and few low buildings, called Villa Alemana ". After 11 years of involvement in the production of electricity and drinking water for the community, the Italian had a number of properties, among them was an apple that was stricken by a fire that was located in the center commune. It was there that they decided to install the theater has a capacity for 500 people. As stated in the publication of the newspaper El Mercurio de Valpara�so on Sunday September 26, 1926, Sunday Composto said in his inaugural address "is your room, is for you all, take it under our protection, not dispensadle despen�is
