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| Location | Pamplona, Spain |
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| Coordinates | 42°47′46″N1°38′08″W / 42.795990°N 1.635437°W |
| Owner | Government of Navarre |
| Capacity | 9,850 (main court) [1] 3,000 (fronton) [1] |
| Surface | Parquet Floor |
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| Broke ground | 2009 |
| Built | 2012 |
| Opened | 29 September 2018 |
| Construction cost | €60m [2] |
Navarra Arena is an indoor sporting arena and fronton located in Pamplona, Spain. Its capacity is 9,808 people in the main court and 3,000 in the fronton.
Located in the place of the old swimming pools property of local football club CA Osasuna, Reyno de Navarra Arena started to be built in 2009. In May 2013, despite being the works being very close to completion, Reyno de Navarra Arena continues to be closed. [2]
In May 2016, the two main enterprises of Basque pelota ruled out an opening in 2016. [3]
The Navarra Arena was finally inaugurated on 29 September 2018 with a final of a Basque pelota championship. [4] The first match played at the main court was a basketball friendly match between Spain and Lithuania, hosted on 2 August 2019. The arena registered a sold-out. [5]
In the July of 2024, the European Championship for the Rubik’s cube was held here.
The 2025 Trampoline Gymnastics World Championships is scheduled to be held at the arena.
Jai alai is a Basque sport involving bouncing a ball off a walled-in space by accelerating it to high speeds with a hand-held wicker, commonly referred to as a cesta. It is a variation of Basque pelota. The term jai alai, coined by Serafin Baroja in 1875, is also often loosely applied to the fronton where matches take place. The game, whose name means "merry festival" in Basque, is called zesta-punta in the Basque Country. The sport is played worldwide, but especially in Spain, France, the U.S. state of Florida, and in various Latin American countries.
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Club Atlético Osasuna, or simply Osasuna, is a Spanish professional football club in Pamplona, Navarre. Founded on 24 October 1920, the club currently plays in La Liga, holding home games at the 23,516-capacity El Sadar Stadium. The team's regular home kit is a red shirt with navy blue shorts. Osasuna is one of four professional La Liga clubs to be owned by its members with an elected president.
The Public University of Navarre, also known by its acronym UPNA or NUP, is a public university created in 1987 by the government of the Spanish autonomous region of Navarre. It has three campuses, located in Pamplona and Tudela. Its activity began in 1989.
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There is an abandoned Jai alai court in the back of the Hermanos Ameijeiras Hospital, the site of the old Casa de Beneficencia, on Calles Concordia and Lucenas near Calle Belascoain, an area that had been considered in the early part of the city as a place to locate the helpless and the unwanted, it was the edge of the city and the countryside known as the "basurero"; the spectator stands were parallel to Calle Concordia, the front wall of the court faced Calle Lucenas, east in the direction towards Old Havana. The original building has been annexed by five stories of residential concrete construction on the north side along Calle Virtudes. The Havana Jai alai fronton was known as "the palace of screams".
The Basque Pelota World Cup is a set of four quadrennial tournaments organized by the International Federation of Basque Pelota on each of the disciplines of Basque Pelota: Trinquete, Fronton 30m, Fronton 36m and Fronton 54m. The FIPV organizes this tournaments on the years where the World Championships is not played.
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