Estadio Doctores José y Antonio Castiglione

The stadium in Santiago del Estero traces back to 1919, when Club Atlético Mitre's leadership decided the club needed proper stands, making it one of the older grounds in Argentine football still in regular use. That age shows less in the structure than in the pitch: the natural grass at the Estadio Doctores José y Antonio Castiglione has a reputation as among the best-kept in the north of the country, a detail locals bring up before anything else about the ground.

The name honours the Castiglione brothers, José and Antonio, though the record of exactly when that dedication became official has not survived clearly enough to state a date. What is fixed is the address, on Avenida Roca Sur at 3 de Febrero, in a city more than a thousand kilometres from Buenos Aires and the capital of its own province, a distance that shapes how the ground is talked about regionally rather than nationally.

Around 21,000 fit inside, a capacity that places it comfortably among the larger venues outside the main metropolitan circuits, built for a club, Mitre, whose home this has remained since those first stands went up.