Velódromo de Tirador
| Velódromo de Tirador | |
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| Tirador | |
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| Tirador (1921) | |
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| place | Palma , Spain |
| Coordinates | 39 ° 34 '41.9 " N , 2 ° 38' 39" E |
| start of building | 1898 |
| opening | 1903 |
| capacity | 2000 |
| playing area | 333.33 m track |
| Societies) | |
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Palma City Hall |
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Railway Spanish Championships |
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The Velódromo de Tirador , also known as Tirador , is an open cycle racing track in Palma ( Mallorca , Balearic Islands , Spain ) that operated between 1903 and 1973. Until the construction of the Velodrome in Anoeta ( San Sebastián ) in 1965, it was the reference cycle track in Spain for six decades.
It has been owned by the municipality since 2015 and its redevelopment is planned, although in recent years it has undergone a process of abandonment and progressive dismantling. It is currently listed as a Historic Monument, which has been protected by the City Council of Palma since 2020.
The Tirador was one of the four existing cycle tracks in Spain and the twelfth in the world. He is the fourth in town. This was followed by the Son Espanyolet Velodrome (1893-1911), then the current Son Moix Velodrome (1987) and finally the Palma Arena (2007).
description
The Tirador track has rope 333.33 m and 6 m wide, with two solid cement edges (edging east and west) and a grandstand on each side straight: Main (north) and General (south) with a capacity for about 2,000 spectators. Due to the elongated nature of the land acquired by Veloz Sport Balear, the ellipse of the route is longer than normal in order to adapt to the perimeter of the farm: its straight lines have a longer stretch, and its slope is more closed than normal and more inclined, its sharp curvature balance. As a result, the central room has an approximate area of 110 by 33.3 m.
In 1918, the architect Gaspar Bennazar added an adjoining building to the canton-shaped building, it was called Xalet (the Chalet), a covered grandstand that served as the cafeteria and terrace for the members and arranged so that there was a privileged perspective on those contested there Bicycle tests offered. In the 1970s it was renovated to house the social Veloz Sport Balear .
Since its closure in 1973, the work as a whole (track, grandstand and chalet) has gradually been dismantled. Even so, the quality of construction has only made it superficial and that the entire structure remains intact. At the beginning of the 1990s a street was opened that left the wall and part of the entrance gardens in front of it, but did not affect the rest of the complex.
Equity value
The Tirador Velodrome is the oldest cycling track in Spain . This is followed by the Campos velodrome (1935) and further the traces of Tortosa (1943) and Mataró (1948). It is currently the oldest sports venue that has been preserved in Mallorca .
In the world it is the twelfth oldest cycle track in the world, surpassed only by four velodromes in the kingdom (built between 1877 and 1900), six from France (between 1884 and 1897) and one from Hungary (1896). They are all in use and have therefore been modernized to varying degrees for their use. Instead, Shooter is preserved almost as it was when it was inaugurated in 1903.
literature
- Manuel García-Gargallo: El velòdrom de Tirador. Una història de l'esport a Mallorca. Illa Edicions, Palma 2018, ISBN 978-84-947890-1-4 .