The arena into Rome | Stadio Olympico | Stage Roma
This item is about a monument in the heart of Rome where the Romans go often and yet does not date from antiquity!
Visits are planned, so if you have an appartement rome or location rome you can get there.
Time and again called the Stadio Olimpico di Roma is the stade of Rome. The two main football teams play (the Lazio and Roma, see earlier theme). It was built in 1953 and hosted the Summer Olympics of 1960 and hosted the final of the football world in 1990.
It has a little over 72 000 places, which is entering the top ten of the ten largest stadiums in Europe!
History:
Located on a former training ground of the army (in 1920), the place that hosts the current stage has seen a sports complex constructed in 1928 with the project of a large stadium in the center. But the fascist regime of Mussolini preferred to develop the Stadio Nazionale del PNF which is located nearly.
After the Second World War, the architect Annibale Vitellozzi receives a request from the Italian Olympic Committee to build a stadium very large. It will be inaugurated on 17 May 1953 by a football match between Italy and Hungary.
The stadium is to host the 1960 Olympics including an episode that will mark the world: the Ethiopian Abebe Bikila won the marathon and beat the world record for having participated in bare feet and Italian Livio Berruti sprinter became the first non-American to win the 200 meters in a stadium in heat!
