Stadio Flaminio
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| Location | Viale dello Stadio Flaminio I-00196 Rome |
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| Coordinates | 41°55′37.04″N 12°28′20.28″E / 41.9269556°N 12.4723000°ECoordinates: 41°55′37.04″N 12°28′20.28″E / 41.9269556°N 12.4723000°E |
| Owner | Municipality of Rome |
| Operator | Italian Football Federation |
| Capacity | 30,000 |
| Surface | Grass |
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| Broke ground | 1957 |
| Opened | 1959 |
| Renovated | 2008 |
| Construction cost | approx. 900 mln Lire |
| Architect | Antonio Nervi |
| Structural engineer | Pier Luigi Nervi |
| Services engineer | Ingg. Nervi & Bartoli |
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Capitolina Marines Lazio Football Italy national rugby union team 2000–2011 |
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The Stadio Flaminio is a stadium in Rome. It lies along the Via Flaminia, three kilometres northwest of the city centre, 300 metres away from the Parco di Villa Glori.
The interior spaces include a covered swimming pool, rooms for fencing, amateur wrestling, weightlifting, boxing and gymnastics.
The stadium was designed by Antonio Nervi, son of Pier Luigi Nervi, author of the stadium's engineering structure. The Stadio Flaminio was built in July 1957, on the site of the previous Stadio Nazionale PNF. It was mostly devoted to football matches and served as the venue for the football final in the 1960 Summer Olympics.
Michael Jackson performed two sell-out concerts on 23 and 24 May 1988 during his Bad World Tour. Each concert was attended by a crowd of 35,000 fans. Police and security guards rescued hundreds of fans from being crushed in the crowd. Jackson also performed another sell-out concert on 4 July 1992 during the Dangerous World Tour, in front of 35,000 fans.
It was the home of Italy rugby union national team for Six Nations tournament home matches from Italy's entry in the competition in 2000 until 2011.
The Italian Rugby Federation (FIR) announced, in January 2010, that the stadium would undergo an expansion, that will increase its capacity to 42,000, before the 2012 Six Nations Championship. A failure to progress these plans has been cited as the reason for moving Italy's home Six Nations games from 2012. With a capacity of 32,000 (8,000 covered), it was the smallest of the Six Nations stadiums. It is no longer considered big enough for the Italian national team and there were frequent reports that the national team would move to Genoa or to the Stadio Olimpico di Roma. This change was confirmed with the Italian Rugby Federation (FIR) becoming upset at broken promises of renovations. It was initially reported that the FIR would move Six Nations matches to Stadio Artemio Franchi in Florence. However, when the city finally began the promised renovations, FIR announced that it would instead keep its Six Nations home fixtures in Rome at Stadio Olimpico, and that it would return to the Flaminio once the project is completed.
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