Estadio Pedro Marrero, Football stadium in Havana, Cuba.
Estadio Pedro Marrero is a multi-purpose stadium in the Ceiba ward of Playa, Havana, built in 1929 and holding 30,000. Its off-white upper facade carries a grid of rectangular openings between projecting concrete dividers, above a recessed lower level on brown pillars. An illuminated sign of yellow-lit square panels sits over the central section, and a flat-roofed block behind it bears a pole with three dish-like fixtures.
The stadium was originally founded in 1929 as Gran Stadium Cervecería Tropical and served primarily as a baseball venue. It was renamed after the Cuban Revolution to honor a fallen revolutionary fighter.
The ground was long known as La Tropical, after the Cervecería Tropical brewery that gave the original Gran Stadium its name, and Habana fans still use the old label. Renamed after the Revolution for Pedro Marrero, a young man killed in the 1953 attack on the Moncada Barracks, it is now a football ground and former home of CF Ciudad de La Habana.
The stadium sits in the Ceiba ward of the Playa borough, beside the boundary with Nuevo Vedado in Plaza de la Revolución. Its 30,000-capacity ground is reached from central Havana by road toward the western suburbs. The facade's recessed lower level behind brown pillars marks the main approach, with the flat-roofed block and its three dish fixtures rising behind.
During its early years, the facility hosted several international baseball tournaments, revealing its important role in Cuban sports development before football took over. This baseball era is often overlooked by visitors who only think of it as a modern football venue.
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