Ippodromo Tor di Valle
Ippodromo Tor di Valle is a former horse racing track in the district of Tor di Valle in Rome .
The facility opened on December 26, 1959 and closed on January 30, 2013. It offered space for 4,000 spectators and had an area of 42 hectares .
The design for the hippodrome came from the architect Julio Lafuente and the civil engineers Gaetano Rebeccini, Calogero Benedetti, Aricardo Birago and Paolo Vietti-Violi. The Ippodromo Tor di Valle replaced the racecourse at Villa Glori, on the area of which the Olympic Village was built for the 1960 Summer Olympics .
The new stadium of AS Roma is to be built on the site of the former racecourse .
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Commons : Tor di Valle Racecourse - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Coordinates: 47 ° 49 ′ 26.8 ″ N , 12 ° 25 ′ 55.9 ″ E