Plaza de Toros de Illumbe

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The Plaza de Toros de Illumbe (also known as San Sebastián Donostia Arena Arena in 2016 or 2016) is a venue, in the originally built for the bullring in the town of San Sebastian in the Spanish autonomous community of the Basque Country. Since 2001, the Arena is the home ground of San Sebastián GBC that plays in the Spanish basketball ACB league.

History

The city had in its history up to twelve small bullrings. The first major, San Martin Arena, was inaugurated on 16 August 1851, had a capacity of 6000 seats. In 1870, a new amphitheater for 9000 spectators was built on the same place of wood, which was destroyed by a devastating fire in 1872. In 1876 it was rebuilt and opened as a reconstructed wooden arena that was destroyed again by a fire in 1882. The last update and now built of iron and masonry Arena dates from 1888 and had a capacity of 10,000 spectators.

1998, the open arena was substantially rebuilt and then expanded by a roof structure. The main feature of the multi-purpose venue is the roof, which consists of two retractable steel construction units with 60 tons of weight. It can be either open or closed at sporting events concerts and exhibitions. It has a capacity for around 10000-16000 seats, depending on the type of event.

The bullring was renamed in late 2009. The Board of Directors approved the new name of the arena due to the candidacy of San Sebastián for " Capitalidad Cultural 2016" to. The Basque name of the arena is now Donostia Arena 2016 Arena or San Sebastian 2016 ( Spanish version ).

" End of August 2012 informed the mayor of San San Sebastián, [ ... ] that the expiring lease will not be renewed with a bullfight promoters. Moreover, it is not reasonable to expect the taxpayers in times of economic crisis, to keep an arena repaired, which hosts only seven days in bullfights. The city government allocates 100 percent of the arguments of bullfighting, further said Izagirre according to media reports, " The suffering and death of an animal must not be made a public spectacle." So the Basque party Bildu follows the concerns of bullfighting, because in Catalonia, in northeastern Spain's bullfights are already prohibited by law since the beginning of 2012 and. the plant is now, according to the mayor in the Canary Islands since the early 90s, are increasingly used for sporting purposes. "