- Fernando Buesa Arena
Infobox_Stadium
stadium_name = Fernando Buesa Arena
nickname =
location = Torre 12 01013Vitoria-Gasteiz , Basque Country,Spain
broke_ground =
opened = 1991
owner = City ofVitoria-Gasteiz
construction_cost =
architect =
tenants = TAU Cerámica
seating_capacity =Judo : 10,400
Basketball: 9,717Tennis : 8,850Concerts : 8,700
Fernando Buesa Arena is an Indoor Sport arena inVitoria-Gasteiz ,Spain . It is primarily used forbasketball and is the home arena ofSaski Baskonia , aka "TAU Cerámica".
The arena'sseating capacity for basketball is up to 9,717 people.
The arena is named afterFernando Buesa , a Spanish politician that was assassinated byETA .Originally designed (rather belatedly) as a cattle market in the mid
seventies for a city that had already abandoned its links with agriculture and was modernizing at a great pace, it was soon turned into a sports arena, which opened in 1991.
It was formerly known as Araba Arena.External links
* [http://www.buesaarena.com/ Fernando Buesa Arena Official Website]
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