Palazzetto dello Sport
in Roma, ItalyCategory: Attraction
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The Palazzetto dello Sport is an indoor arena located in Piazza Apollodoro in Rome, Italy.It has a 3,500 seating capacity for basketball games.The venue was constructed along with the 11,500-seat Palazzo dello Sport for the 1960 Summer Olympics and inaugurated in 1957.
It was designed by architect Annibale Vitellozzi its reinforced thin-shell concrete dome was engineered by Pier Luigi Nervi under the direction of Engineer Giacomo Maccagno.During the Olympics the arena hosted basketball among other sports.
Presently it is the home venue of a professional basketball team and also hosts volleyball matches and other events. It is less commonly known as the PalaTiziano or PalaFlaminio,

