Estadio Atanasio Girardot, Municipal football stadium in Medellín, Colombia.
Estadio Atanasio Girardot is a municipal football stadium in Medellín with approximately 44,000 seats arranged across multiple levels. It serves as home ground for two local football clubs and offers modern facilities for matches.
The stadium opened in 1953 and has been central to football in the city ever since. A major renovation in 2011 brought updated seating and facilities to meet modern standards.
The stadium is named after Atanasio Girardot, a Colombian independence leader from the early 1800s. This choice connects the venue to an important moment in the nation's past.
The Estadio station on Metro Line B provides direct access right next to the venue. Many restaurants and bars are located along the nearby Carrera 70, making it easy to find food before or after events.
The stadium is one of about fifty venues inside the Unidad Deportiva Atanasio Girardot, which also holds an Olympic pool, a velodrome, a roller-skating rink, baseball and softball fields, a go-kart track and an athletics coliseum. The complex served as the athletes' village for the 2010 South American Games, hosted after Medellín was chosen by Odesur on 10 November 2006 over Santiago de Chile.
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