Palau Blaugrana
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Palau Blaugrana (Catalan for palace of blue and deep red) is an arena in Barcelona, Catalonia,(Spain), belonging to FC Barcelona (FCB). The 8,250 capacity arena is home to the basketball, handball, roller hockey, and futsal sections of FCB.
Built in 1971 it originally held 5,696 spectators, the facility was remodeled in 1994 to fit the current amount of 8,000.
Palau Blaugrana is located between Mini Estadi and the Camp Nou.
There are several shirts retired of basketball and handball players.
4 Andrés Jiménez, 7 Nacho Solozábal and 15 Epi for basketball and 2 Òscar Grau, 7 Iñaki Urdangarin and 14 Joan Sagalés for handball players.
In the 1992 Summer Olympics held some matches of roller hockey, taekwondo and judo.
[edit] See also
- FC Barcelona (Main body and football club)
- UB-Barça (Women's basketball)
- FC Barcelona-Cifec (handball)
- FC Barcelona-Institut Guttman (wheelchair basketball)
- AXA FC Barcelona (basketball)
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