Stadio Pierluigi Penzo - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Stadio Pierluigi Penzo is a multi-use stadium

Stadium

A modern stadium is a place or venue for outdoor sports, concerts, or other events and consists of a field or stage either partly or completely surrounded by a structure designed to allow spectators to stand or sit and view the event.)Pausanias noted that for about half a century the only event...

in Venice

Venice

Venice is a city in northern Italy which is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks. It is the capital of the Veneto region...

, Italy

Italy

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. It is currently used mostly for football

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

matches and is the home ground of F.B.C. Unione Venezia

F.B.C. Unione Venezia

Football Club Unione Venezia , commonly referred to as simply Venezia, is an Italian football club from Venice, Veneto....

. The stadium holds 10,500 people and is located on the island Sant'Elena

Sant'Elena

Sant'Elena is an island of Venice. It lies at the eastern tip of the main island group and forms part of sestiere of Castello. The original island was separated by an arm of the Venetian Lagoon from Venice itself, and was centred on the Church of Sant'Elena and its monastery, originally built in...

. It is the only ground in Italy's top flights to which opposing teams and fans must get a boat.

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