Indoor Basketball Arena
The Olympic Indoor Sports Center, one of the most modern basketball courts in Europe, was inaugurated in June 1995. It hosts sporting events, concerts, conferences and other functions such as Moto Cross competitions (February 2005)
The Indoor Basketball Arena is constructed in six levels and can be evacuated in 10 minutes.
Facts and figures:
- 40X70m competition area
- 25.5X44.5m central court floor
- Capacity: 18,500 spectator seats (of which 2,000 are folding) and 300 media seats
- 4 electronic boards:
- 2 scoreboards
- 1 statistics board
- 1 audiovisual reproduction board
- 54 spectator gates, 2 team entrances, 1 VIP entrance and 1 media entrance
- 2 19X9m indoor gyms
- Medical center (operational at games time)
- Doping control room
- 12 dressing rooms with shower, toilet and massage areas
- 2 saunas
- Press center (500m2 main room, 100m2 press conference room, 2 offices)
- 18 snack bars for spectators, 1 for VIP and 1 for media
- Closed circuit TV
- 6 dark rooms
- All gates of the middle landing are accessible
- Parking lot for 750 spectator vehicles and 40 VIP vehicles