Tirador | |
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| Location | 4 Miquel dels Sants Oliver &sq=Google&lang=en&file=File:Escut_de_Palma.svg){kind=small} Palma de Mallorca Balearic Islands, Spain |
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| Coordinates | 39°34′43″N 2°38′40″E / 39.578678°N 2.644325°E |
| Owner | Municipal property |
| Capacity | 2,000 seats |
| Field size | 333,33 m. |
| Surface | Cement |
| Construction | |
| Built | 1898–1903 |
| Opened | 10 August 1903 |
| Renovated | 2022 (public park) |
| Closed | March 1973 |
The Tirador (Catalan: Velòdrom del Tirador or Velòdrom de Tirador) is a velodrome in Palma (Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain). It is an outdoor track cycling, opened in 1903, and used to be the most important velodrome built in Spain for six decades until the construction of the Velódromo de Anoeta (San Sebastián) in 1965. The Tirador was closed in 1973 and still exists, but is no longer in use.
Since 2015, the Tirador is municipally owned, despite the fact that in recent years it has suffered a process of abandonment and progressive degradation.[1] Its cataloging as a heritage element protected by the Palma City Council is in process and its rehabilitation is scheduled since 2022.[2][3][4]
It has been one of the four cycling tracks in the city. Before, there were Son Espanyolet (1893-1911), the current velodrome of Son Moix (1987), and finally the Palma Arena (2007).[5]
- ^ "Velòdrom de Tirador". Associació de Veïns es Fortí (in Spanish). 2014–2019.
- ^ "Cort inicia los pasos para catalogar el velódromo de es Tirador". Última Hora (in Spanish). 7 April 2020.
- ^ "Cort inicia la tramitación de la protección del edificio y las pistas del velódromo de Tirador". Diario de Mallorca (in Spanish). 7 April 2020.
- ^ "Cort espera que el proyecto de rehabilitación del edificio y las pistas de Tirador esté el próximo año". Diario de Mallorca (in Spanish). 6 October 2020.
- ^ García Gargallo 2018, p. 137.