Stadio Druso

The German army took the ground in 1943, after the armistice, and turned it into a prison camp for Italian soldiers. The name it carried into the war had already been chosen for political reasons: Nero Claudius Drusus, a Roman general, picked during the Fascist era as part of the Italianisation of South Tyrol. The name has never changed since.

What has changed is nearly everything around the pitch. The ground began as a single grandstand with dirt embankments, gained a second stand in 1960, and sat at roughly three thousand seats after the work of 2000-2001. The athletics track that had ringed the pitch since the beginning came out in 2019, pulling the stands in towards the touchlines. The renovation completed in 2022 brought the seated capacity to its present figure and put a heating system under the grass.

The record crowd arrived soon after: 5,419 for the playoff against Reggina in May 2023.

Football has not had the place to itself. Three Giro d'Italia stages finished here, in 1949, 1952 and 1953, and Fausto Coppi won all three. Tina Turner played the ground in 1990, and Vasco Rossi and Laura Pausini have since. In 2002 the two main stands were renamed for Christian Zanvettor and Albano Canazza.