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The Astelena fronton, nicknamed Cathedral of Basque Hand-pelota, is a fronton located in Eibar, Gipuzkoa, Basque Autonomous Community, Spain. Astelena is a short 41 meter-long fronton where hand-pelota and pala modalities are played. The field has a width of 11 m, and the wall a height of 9 m. It was inaugurated in 1904 and has been renovated ...
Recognized as an Olympic sport. Basque pelota (Basque: pilota, Spanish: pelota vasca, French: pelote basque) is the name for a variety of court sports played with a ball using one's hand, a racket, a wooden bat or a basket, against a wall (frontis or fronton) or, more traditionally, with two teams face to face separated by a line on the ground ...
The main modalities played in the fronton are Hand-pelota and Paleta-rubber. Despite that Ogueta has a bigger capacity than Atano III , were played only two 1st Hand-pelota championship finals. It's the usual fronton used for the Doubles-pelota and Cuatro y Medio championships.
35 m (length) x 10 (width) x 14 m (height) [2] Construction. Broke ground. 1962. Opened. 17 July 1963. Renovated. 1995. Atano III is a Basque pelota short fronton located at the Anoeta Sports Complex in San Sebastián, Basque Autonomous Community, Spain.
Opened. 5 April 1931. Closed. October 2011. The Deportivo fronton is a Basque pelota fronton, used mainly in the modalities of hand-pelota, short bat, long bat, pala and paleta. It is located in Bilbao and owned by the local municipality. The 52-metre-long facility closed to the public in 2011 [ 1] (it is still used by the sports club based ...
The Bare-handed Pelota First League ( Campeonato Manomanista) is the most important tournament competition of Hand-pelota category of Basque pelota. It was created in 1940, when the new Basque Pelota Spanish Federation, to have a champion of the category. In its beginnings, the championship was disputed every two years, turning into an annual ...
fronton at Ossès Church. The front wall of the first frontons in villages was usually the wall of a church. Because the games being played close by, several priests would play pelota along with the villagers and got to be well-known players and often served as referees in provincial or town competitions [1] but were out of the picture when it turned into a commercialized sport.
Capacity. 950. Field size. 32m. Opened. 14 February 1890. The Beotibar fronton is a short fronton located in Tolosa, Gipuzkoa. The fronton is mainly dedicated to hand-pelota and it was home of the 1958 and the 1962 1st Hand-Pelota singles championships as of 1962, 1965, 1970, 1971 and 2009 editions of 2nd Hand-Pelota singles championship.