142:(Lower Zone). Perpendicular to the front wall is attached another longer wall, with marks for the distance to the main wall. The number of marks depends on the type of fronton used. Perpendicular to the side wall is the back wall. The height of the three walls must be the same for professional courts. Often, in common rural open-air courts, the place where the back wall should be is delimited by a line on the floor. A free wall sideline is delimited to make watching the game easier for an audience or other players. In every kind of fronton, the sidelines are 4.5 m apart.
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picture when it turned into a commercialized sport. Because of the increasing popularity of the game, many churches put up signs forbidding pelota games on their porches. The games were also played in town halls, but when the game turned into a highly popular entertainment in the region, towns started to build special frontons in open-air or closed courts.
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The front wall of the first frontons in villages was usually the wall of a church. Because the games being played close by, several priests would play pelota along with the villagers and got to be well-known players and often served as referees in provincial or town competitions but were out of the
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This 28.5 m court has a somewhat different shape than the others: with an inclined roof all along the left wall. It allows the variants of handball, paleta-rubber, paleta-leather and xare. It is used almost exclusively in the
Northern Basque Country, but also in some places of León and Castilla.
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The lower zone line is 15 cm wide and the height depends on the size of the fronton (see chart). The upper zone is frequently marked at 10 m high on the wall and the line is also 15 cm wide.
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This 100 m open-air court is used for playing Grand
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The service line is often located in the fifth square, usually in racquet, cesta punta, and paleta-rubber, or in the fourth square, usually in hand categories.
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The marks on the fronton must create a notable contrast with the color of the field. To make the difference visible, the marks are often painted.
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The sideline line is 15 cm wide and parallel to the side wall. This line marks the limit between the playing ground and the exterior.
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This 36 m court is used professionally for hand-pelota, paleta-leather and short bat variants.
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114:Perspective view (lower and upper zones in blue)
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372:Place libre
347:Short court
241:Short Court
102:Side wall;
796:Categories
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700:References
614:Lecumberry
526:Pala corta
355:Long court
270:Long court
140:Bajo Chapa
54:pilotaleku
661:Trinquete
506:Frontenis
430:(squares)
341:frontenis
178:Side wall
683:See also
664:Elizondo
659:Covered
630:A Coruña
582:Bidarray
545:Jai alai
411:Sideline
363:Trinquet
299:Trinquet
155:Frontons
132:La Rioja
110:Ground;
25:Ustaritz
566:Ascarat
551:Gallery
516:Remonte
428:Cuadros
136:frontis
128:Navarre
73:History
63:fronton
49:frontoi
41:frontón
37:Spanish
33:fronton
27:fronton
598:Macaye
531:Paleta
453:(pass)
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321:28.5m
173:Ground
130:, and
59:French
45:Basque
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467:falta
459:falta
447:Falta
436:falta
312:28.5m
309:0.60m
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205:Wide
521:Xare
471:pasa
463:pasa
457:The
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263:36m
234:30m
202:Long
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