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Municipal Stadium of Rhodes "Diagoras" (former national), with its original Italian name Arena Del Sole, is a football and cycling stadium in the city of Rhodes and is the seat of the General Assembly of Diagoras Rhodes and AS. Rhodes. It is well-lit, has a bike path and a covered roof at gates 1
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Until the beginning of the new millennium, there were no seats, except for the covered tribune, until they were placed in the rest of the stadium. In 2016, by order of the Third
National Division, the seats were removed. In 2019 the wall from gate 4 to 5 was tilted and torn down to be repaired. In
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In the early 1980s, the outer wall of the stadium was about 250 cm., then doubled, and thus lost its original
Italian form, but not in the auxiliary training center. The record capacity of the stadium is 8,500 people. The capacity of the stadium is 3,693 seats.
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Service of Modern Monuments.
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