Estadio Municipal Lucio Fariña Fernández, Municipal stadium in Quillota, Chile
The Estadio Municipal Lucio Fariña Fernández is a football stadium in Quillota with a synthetic playing surface and dedicated facilities for athletes and officials. The venue features multiple seating sections and support rooms designed to meet professional competition standards.
Quillota's municipality bought the land, then called Fundo El Mono, by public deed on 30 September 1936, and the ground was built in 1940 under Alberto Barrera Droguett. The pitches opened in 1946 and 1947 while Guillermo Arredondo Lillo was mayor. The old stadium was demolished and rebuilt between 2007 and 2010 by architects Juan Zorrilla Pizarro, Daniela Guzmán Vergara and Giselle Zernott Ainzúa; the new one opened on 10 September 2010.
The stadium has been San Luis de Quillota's home ground since the 1950s, and the club still plays its Chilean league matches there. Its name, granted by the municipality on 29 October 2002 at the request of mayor Luis Mella, honours Lucio Fariña Fernández, a Quillota athlete, official and sports journalist who died on 14 February 2015. The four stands are named Galería Arauco Iván Mayo Román, Tribuna Andes Victor Hugo Cabrera, Tribuna Preferencial José Silva Silva and Tribuna Butaca Fernando de Paul.
The ground occupies Calle Bulnes and holds 7,700 spectators, with individual seats for 7,500. The main synthetic pitch, 105 by 68 metres, is built to be used up to eight hours a day. The rebuilt complex also has a stage for artistic events with dressing rooms, an administration room and a press room.
During construction of the Oriente stands in 1955, workers unearthed more than fifty vessels, bone and stone tools and jewellery from the Bato and Aconcagua cultures. A further find in 1998 on Calle Arauco, one block east, is known as the Arauco archaeological site. The rebuilt stadium holds a Museo de Sitio displaying Aconcagua, Bato and late Inca material.
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