Estadio Tomás Adolfo Ducó, Football stadium in Parque Patricios, Argentina.
Estadio Tomás Adolfo Ducó is a football stadium on Amancio Alcorta Avenue in Parque Patricios, Buenos Aires. Its concrete bowl seats 48,314 spectators, with a curved multi-storey facade of tall rectangular openings and vertical banners along the street side. Two manually operated grid scoreboards stand on the pitch, and a panel above the far stands reads "BRANCA".
The original stadium opened in 1924, then underwent major reconstruction under the direction of Lieutenant Colonel Tomás Adolfo Ducó during the 1940s. This renovation was completed in 1947, giving the venue its current circular design and distinctive features.
The stadium is known as "el Palacio" for its concrete architecture, and its stands carry the name of Racing painted in red letters, a reminder of the Huracán v Racing match filmed there for the Oscar-winning film The Secret in Their Eyes. The venue also hosts Argentine rock concerts, and La Renga recorded live albums here in 2001 and 2004.
The venue is located around five kilometers from central Buenos Aires and can be reached via Caseros station on metro line H. From the station, it takes roughly a ten-minute walk to reach the stadium entrance.
The stadium was the first Argentine football ground to appear in an Academy Award-winning film: in The Secret in Their Eyes, Inspector Espósito and Sandoval watch a Huracán–Racing match here while hunting a murder suspect, identified by his devotion to Racing. The line about a man being unable to change his passion for a team became one of the film's best-known moments.
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