Estádio Parque Santiago, Football stadium in Brotas district, Salvador, Brazil.
Arena Parque Santiago is a football ground in Brotas, Salvador, opened on 1 November 2022 on the site of the old Estádio Santiago de Compostela. The rebuilt complex has an official pitch used by Galícia Esporte Clube for training and youth development, and the 1995 chapel dedicated to Santiago de Compostela was kept and restored.
Galícia Esporte Clube built its own ground in Brotas, and the first stage was inaugurated on 11 February 1995. In 1989, before that, the site served as the official training camp of the Brazil national team preparing for the Copa América. In 2020 the land was leased to a group of investors, who built a new sports complex; after years of works, the Arena Parque Santiago opened on 1 November 2022, keeping only the chapel.
The club's Galician origin is recalled by the chapel dedicated to Santiago de Compostela, built on the stadium grounds and the only structure kept and restored when the site was rebuilt as an arena in 2022. The name Parque Santiago and the initials PST come from that same dedication.
The old stadium held 2,000 spectators, later cut to 1,500, and a storm damaged part of the stands, so professional matches moved to Estádio Roberto Santos and other grounds in Salvador. The rebuilt arena opened on 1 November 2022; when Galícia is not training, its official pitch splits into four fut7 fields open to the public.
The chapel dedicated to Santiago de Compostela, built to mark Galícia Esporte Clube's Galician roots, was the only structure kept when the old ground was leased to investors in 2020; it was restored and stands beside the arena inaugurated on 1 November 2022.
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