Braga Municipal Stadium
Location
Braga (360 kilometres north of Lisbon)
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| View taken 02 December 2003 of the Estadio Municipal in Braga. The stadium will host up to 30.000 football fans during two games of the first round of the Euro 2004, Bulgaria vs Denmark 18 June and Netherlands vs Latvia 23 June. The continental competition will be hosted by Portugal from 12 June to 05 July 2004. AFP PHOTO FRANCOIS XAVIER MARIT |
Capacity
30,000
Match schedule
June 18 - Bulgaria-Denmark, June 23 - Holland-Latvia
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| Aerial view taken in November 2003 of the Estadio Municipal in Braga. The stadium will host up to 30.000 football fans during two games of the first round of the Euro 2004, Bulgaria vs Denmark 18 June and Netherlands vs Latvia 23 June. The continental competition will be hosted by Portugal from 12 June to 05 July 2004. AFP PHOTO |
Characteristics
New stadium (completed Sept. 2003)
Cost
55 million euros
Resident club
Sporting Braga (Div. 1)
Other features
Builders blasted over one million cubic metres of granite from Monte Castro, a mountain on the outskirts of Braga, to make room for the stadium. A number of seats offer a panoramic view of the region. One side of the stadium faces a huge wall of granite where there is a 270 square metre television screen.