Estadio La Peineta
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Estadio La Peineta, also known as Estadio de la Comunidad, is a stadium in Madrid
, Spain
. It is currently used for athletics events, but it will soon be expanded for the football club Atlético Madrid. Currently the stadium has a capacity of 20,000 spectators, but a reconstruction for Atletico's move will expand the stadium to 73,000 spectators. Atlético will pay for all the costs associated with the expansion. The stadium will replace Vicente Calderón Stadium
as the home of Atlético in the summer of 2013.
Basque separatist group ETA
bombed the stadium in June 2005.
Madrid
Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...
, Spain
Spain
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. It is currently used for athletics events, but it will soon be expanded for the football club Atlético Madrid. Currently the stadium has a capacity of 20,000 spectators, but a reconstruction for Atletico's move will expand the stadium to 73,000 spectators. Atlético will pay for all the costs associated with the expansion. The stadium will replace Vicente Calderón Stadium
Vicente Calderón Stadium
The Vicente Calderón Stadium is the home stadium of La Liga football club Atlético Madrid and is located in the Arganzuela district of Spanish capital Madrid. The stadium was originally called the Manzanares Stadium, but this was later changed to the Vicente Calderón Stadium, after the famous...
as the home of Atlético in the summer of 2013.
Basque separatist group ETA
ETA
ETA , an acronym for Euskadi Ta Askatasuna is an armed Basque nationalist and separatist organization. The group was founded in 1959 and has since evolved from a group promoting traditional Basque culture to a paramilitary group with the goal of gaining independence for the Greater Basque Country...
bombed the stadium in June 2005.