PalaDesio
| PalaBancoDesio | |
| Address | Largo Atleti Azzurri d’Italia |
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| Location | Desio, Lombardy, Italy |
| Coordinates | 45°36′48″N 9°11′35″E / 45.6132532°N 9.1931051°ECoordinates: 45°36′48″N 9°11′35″E / 45.6132532°N 9.1931051°E |
| Owner | Desio comune |
| Type | Arena |
| Genre(s) | Multi-purpose |
| Capacity | 6,700 (basic) 8,000 (extended) |
| Field size | 20,000 square metres (220,000 sq ft) |
| Surface | Parquet |
| Scoreboard | Yes |
| Construction | |
| Opened | 12 March 1992 |
| Renovated | 2011 |
| Construction cost | 6 million lire €130,000 euros (renovation) |
| Architect | Clemente Schiatti |
| Tenants | |
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San Giorgio ‘79 (200?-present) Italian rhythmic gymnastics team (2003-present) Pallacanestro Cantù (2011-present, periodically) Olimpia Milano (2011-present, periodically Power Volley Milano (2014-2015) |
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The PalaBancoDesio (full name: Palazzetto dello Sport di Desio, known for sponsorship reasons as PalaBancoDesio) is an arena located in Desio, Lombardy, Italy. Opened in 1992, the arena – with a capacity of 6,700 or 8,000 depending on the layout – has hosted a number of sporting and artistic events, chief of which have been basketball and gymnastics.
The construction of the PalaDesio took eighteen months and the arena was completed on 12 March 1992 for a cost of around 6 million lire. It was built to host Aurora Desio, a basketball club that played in the second division Serie A2 (having also played in the first division priorly). The club would only play two seasons at the Banco Desio-sponsored arena, disappearing after the 1993-94 season (where it won the Serie A2) after selling its sporting rights.
Aurora's demise would open a vacuum that the Desio municipality struggled to fill, women's basketball and volleyball clubs Feg Robbiano and Preca Moda Cislago played there, whilst guests such as the Harlem Globetrotters or a number of artists (Vasco Rossi, Litfiba, Ligabue, De Gregori, Beppe Grillo, the Italian cast of the Les Dix Commandements) periodically visited but despite this and the presence of gymnastics organisations (see gymnastics) the venue remained unprofitable. Faced with upkeep costs of between €120,000 and €250,000 per year, the municipality tried to involve private event-managing companies without avail, an attempt to sell the arena in 2003 did not go through either.
Another basketball club, neighbours Pallacanestro Cantù, used the arena to play in the 2011–12 Euroleague as the Palasport Pianella where they usually played did not meet Euroleague standards. It underwent a €130,000 refurbishment over the 2011 summer, with changes to the court, electrical installations and outside area that made it fall in line with the aforementioned standards. The PalaDesio hosted the Euroleague 2012–13 qualifying rounds, before again seeing Cantù play their Euroleague games there after they emerged victorious. They have also played domestic Serie A games in Desio, including one game during the 2010-11 season, four more the next, then two local derbies against Vanoli Cremona and EA7 Emporio Armani Milano in 2014-15.
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