Sports Palace in Torremolinos, Malaga.
San Miguel Sports Palace.

Torremolinos Sports Palace

The "Palacio de Deportes San Miguel" inaugurated February 1, 1997, is situated within Torremolinos new Sports Village, easily accessed, it has an ample parking space. This totally modern structure, has aside from a spacious service area, a gymnasium of approximately 300m² with state of the art weight-lifting equipment and apparatus for all types of workouts, from low level physique improvement to training for sports' elite.

The flooring on the main hall is of Mondo flex, as used at Los Angeles' Olympic Games. With a surface area of 51x30 metres, its basketball, handball, volleyball and indoor football courts comply with international standards. Special curtains can be lowered from the ceiling to divide the hall into three independent game areas.

The spectators' gallery on the second floor can be reached both from the outside and from the centre game area. At present there is tiered seating for 1.000 people around the sides and at the north end, and there are plans underway to double this capacity. There is also VIP gallery with seating fir eighty people and two Press Cabins, one at each side of the north and seating.

Game equipments includes regulation goal nets, three sets foldaway ball nets suspended from the roof, an electronic scoreboard at the south end, visible from any part of the central hall, and a central louder speaker system.

In the service zone there are 4 washrooms and 9 independent changing rooms, 4 larger ones for team use with individual showers and 5 individual ones for referees as well as 120 clothes lockers infirmary and facilities for the disabled.