Arena Civica
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| place | Viale Giorgio Byron 2 20151 Milan , Italy
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| Coordinates | 45 ° 28 '33.4 " N , 9 ° 10' 44.3" E |
| owner | City of Milan |
| start of building | 1805 |
| opening | August 18, 1807 |
| First game |
 Italy 6-2 France on May 15, 1910
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| surface | Natural grass |
| architect | Luigi Canonica |
| capacity | 10,000 seats |
| playing area | 100 m × 68 m |
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The Arena Civica Gianni Brera , known as the Arena Civica , is a multi-purpose sports facility in Milan . It was opened as an amphitheater in 1807 before being handed over to the city of Milan in 1870. It is located north of Castello Sforzesco in Parco Sempione .
In 2002 the arena was posthumously named in memory of Gianni Brera after the Italian sports journalist.
history
In 1805, Napoleon Bonaparte commissioned the architect Luigi Canonica to build a large town house for parties and celebrations. It was supposed to fill the emptiness left by the demolition of the Spanish fortifications in Parco Sempione .
It was decided to build the building in the form of an amphitheater . Canonica was inspired by the Circus des Maxentius , which lies outside of Rome on the Via Appia Antica and is still one of the best preserved Roman buildings today. The system was built on the northeast side of Parco Sempione in an elliptical shape with a length of 238 meters and a width of 116 meters. It could hold around 30,000 spectators. That was just under a quarter of the Milanese population at the time.
The stones from the demolition of the Spanish and Austrian fortifications around the Castello Sforzesco and the Visconti fort in Trezzo sull'Adda were used for the construction, so that the structure consists entirely of recycled stones.
Opening and subsequent events
The amphitheater was opened after only two years on December 17, 1807 with a great naumachie in the presence of Napoleon with the name Arena del Foro Bonaparte . Before the arena came into the possession of the city of Milan, it was called Arena di Milano .
In the Cisalpine Republic as well as in the Kingdom of Italy , the arena served mainly as a setting for naumachia, horse races and pyrotechnic games. In the 19th century it was used, among other things, for parties, circus shows (e.g. the Wild West Show of the Buffalo Bill Circus ) or balloon ascents. For the naumachia that took place in the arena, the interior of the arena was flooded with water from the Navigli . The Italian cycling championship in 1895 was the first event of a modern sport in the arena.
The Giro d'Italia , which was held for the first time in 1909, ended in the arena on May 30, 1909 , and in 1910 the first match between the Italian national football team and the French selection took place. The Squadra Azzurra won 6-2.
On May 20, 1923 won Erminio Spalla the box - European champion in heavyweight against Dutchman Piet van der Veer .
From 1930 to 1947, Inter Milan played their home games in the Arena Civica, as did AC Milan from October 1941 to June 1945. The reason for this was the Second World War , as the San Siro was not accessible to the Rossoneri fans because of the lack of electricity .
In December 1943 in were in the arena nine prison San Vittore detained anti-fascists as a reprisal for the Resistance killed in an attack in Milan fascist leader Aldo Resega executed. In 1944, after the AC Milan match against Juventus Turin, 300 young spectators were arrested by the Germans and deported to concentration camps in Germany .
Due to the damage caused by the bombing of Milan on September 13, 1943, it was restored in 1945 and received its current capacity of 10,000 seats.
After the Second World War, the arena was the venue for international athletics competitions several times . Of 16 athletics records set in Milan, 12 were created in the Arena Civica. So put Luigi Beccali , the first Italian to Olympic gold won, on September 17, 1933 the first world record in the arena over 1500 meters on. On November 4th of the same year, he set a second world record over 1000 yards. Marcello Fiasconaro set the new world record over 800 meters in the arena on the night of Milan in 1973, and Pietro Mennea defeated the Jamaican Olympic champion Don Quarrie in a world record time in 1977 . Other athletes who were able to set a world record in Milan are: Adolfo Consolini (discus throw , 1948), Armando Filiput (hurdles, 1950), Janusz Sidlo , Carlo Lievore (both javelin throw 1956 and 1961), Paola Pigni (5000 meters, 1969) , Pietro Mennea (200 meters, 1972), Wladyslaw Kozakiewicz (pole vault) and Edwin Moses (400 meter hurdles, both 1980).
From 2010 to 2011, the home games of Amatori Milano, the traditional Milanese rugby club , took place in the arena . Today the arena is used by the Milanese athletes of Atletica Riccardi and the third football team from Milan, Brera Calcio, who play in the sixth highest class . The club was founded in 2000 in honor of Gianni Brera, after whom the arena is named.
gallery
Arena Civica from Viale Goethe in Parco Sempione
Arena Civica grandstand
View of the south curve
Arena Civica from the air
The Arc de Triomphe
See also
- San Siro (today: Giuseppe Meazza Stadium)
- Gianni Brera
- Parco Sempione
literature
- Almanacco illustrato del Milan , 1st ed., Panini, Modena, 1999.
- Matteo Lunardini, I fantasmi dell'Arena Civica , Milieu edizioni, Milan, 2013.
Web links
- Entry to the arena in LombardiaBeniCulturali (cultural property database of the Lombardy region) (Italian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f Information on the Arena Civica ( Memento from May 7, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) at FIDAL
- ↑ a b c d Piero Lotito: Arena Civica. November 27, 2016, accessed August 8, 2018 (Italian).
- ↑ a b c Arena Civica Gianni Brera. Aneddoti e curiosità. In: turismo.milano.it. September 18, 2017, accessed August 8, 2018 (Italian).
- ^ Marco di Nardo: Terzo tempo e sociale: ecco la realta 'del Brera Calcio. In: calcioefinanza.it. September 24, 2015, accessed August 8, 2018 (Italian).
- ^ Brera FC »Club. Retrieved August 9, 2018 (it-IT).