Stadio Tommaso Fattori is a multi-use stadium in L'Aquila,

Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical ...

. It is currently used mostly for football and

rugby union Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In it ...

matches and the home of L'Aquila Calcio and L'Aquila Rugby. Inaugurated in 1933, the stadium holds 10,000 people. It hosted some of the football preliminaries for the

1960 Summer Olympics The 1960 Summer Olympics ( it, Giochi Olimpici estivi del 1960), officially known as the Games of the XVII Olympiad ( it, Giochi della XVII Olimpiade) and commonly known as Rome 1960 ( it, Roma 1960), were an international multi-sport event held ...

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1960 Summer Olympics official report.
Volume 1. p. 86. Venues of the 1960 Summer Olympics Olympic football venues Tommaso Fattori Rugby union stadiums in Italy Buildings and structures in L'Aquila Buildings and structures completed in 1933 Tommaso Fattori {{Summer-Olympic-venue-stub

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