Teatro Municipal Enrique Buenaventura, National monument theatre in central Cali, Colombia.

The Teatro Municipal Enrique Buenaventura is a yellow theatre building with a curved corner facade in downtown Cali. Its lower level has a tan stone base with arched doorways and dark doors, rising to yellow walls divided by white columns. Above the ground floor, four large arched windows with white grilles sit between the columns, and a white band across the upper facade reads "TEATRO" on the left and "MUNICIPAL" on the right. The roofline carries a balustrade with small urns, and three flags fly from poles atop the roof.

The theatre was founded in 1918 and opened in 1927 with a performance of Verdi's opera "El Trovador". In 1982, it was declared a national monument, and it was later renamed after the Colombian theatre director Enrique Buenaventura.

The main hall's ceiling carries frescoes by Bogotá-born Mauricio Ramelli Andreani, trained in Italy and also responsible for the frescoes in the nearby Church of San Francisco; his work draws on the Renaissance and on the region's colonial past. In 1937 the theatre's construction board commissioned Popayán painter Efraim Martínez to decorate the foyer, taking Jorge Isaacs's novel María and the triple manifestation of the sun as his subjects. His paintings were later distributed throughout the building.

The theatre sits in central Cali and is easy to reach on foot from other points of interest in the city center. The building has elevators, though some seating areas on the upper levels involve a bit more walking, so it helps to plan accordingly.

The theatre's construction was funded by creating the city lottery, since the Municipal Council initially refused the project over its high cost. The building was declared a national monument in 1982, and the Ministry of Culture had to authorise the 2009 restoration for that reason.