Stadium
San Mamés Stadium
P.º Rafael Moreno "Pitxitxi", s/n, Basurto-Zorroza, 48013 Bilbao, Vizcaya
Modern football arena raised on the site of an ancient shrine, home to a fiercely devoted club known as the Lions.
This guide to San Mames Stadium in Bilbao opens with the legend behind its name: a teenage shepherd's son named Mammes, thrown to lions in a Roman arena around the year 259, and the lions that would not touch him. It traces the chapel and shrine later raised on this hill in his honor, and the football ground Athletic Club built beside it in 1913, a stadium so revered fans called it La Catedral. For a time the old ground and its 2013 replacement stood side by side, one being torn down as the other rose beside it.
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