Eden Ice Arena, Ice rink in Vršovice, Czech Republic.
Zimní stadion Eden is a covered ice arena on Vladivostocká street in Prague's Vršovice district, built in 1975 to designs by architects Cyril Mandel and Vladimír Syrovátka with steel specialist Alois Sehnal. It is the home ground and property of the HC Slavia Praha hockey club, with stands for spectators around the ice.
The arena opened in 1975 and was from the start one of the main venues for ice sports in Prague. Over the following decades, it was gradually updated while keeping its core role as a training and competition site.
The arena is home to HC Slavia Praha, whose first team and youth categories all play and train here, and the club management is based on site. Public ice skating is also offered, and concerts occasionally take place in the hall, as in 2007 for the band Arakain's 25th anniversary.
Trams 6, 7, 22 and 24 serve the arena in Vršovice, and paid parking spaces are available in front of the hall. The building stands a few hundred metres east of the Fortuna Arena, the football ground of Slavia Praha.
The arena hosted matches of the 1985 Ice Hockey World Championship and, in 1998, was one of three venues for the floorball world championship. In 2007 it held a concert marking 25 years of the Czech metal band Arakain.
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