The Neoclassical facade of theTeatro de Cristbal Coln includes stone cornices, a horizontal molding that crowns a building.
Its Neoclassical style and its facade was designed following the Tuscan Doric order in carved stone, with three parts separated from each other by cornices also made of stone. In architecture, a cornice (from the Italian cornice meaning "ledge") is generally any horizontal decorative molding that crowns a building or furniture element  the cornice over a door or window, for instance, or the cornice around the top edge of a pedestal or along the top of an interior wall. 
