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The Pavilhão da Luz Nº 1, currently known as Pavilhão Fidelidade for sponsorship reasons, is the main arena (or pavilion) of Portuguese multi-sport club S.L. Benfica.It has a full capacity of 2,400 seats and is mainly used by the basketball, futsal and roller hockey departments of the club.
Lisbon is one of the oldest cities in western Europe, with a history that stretches back to its original settlement by the indigenous Iberians, the Celts, and the eventual establishment of Phoenician and Greek trading posts (c. 800–600 BC), [2] followed by successive occupations in the city of various peoples including the Carthaginians ...
In 1995, basketball stopped being one of the sports practiced in the club, returning in 2012, just with the women's team. In 2019, the men's team was refounded after 24 years. Sporting submitted a proposal to go directly into the 2019–20 Liga Portuguesa de Basquetebol with their men's team.
[2] 1911 University of Lisbon and Eduardo VII Park established. Cinema Olympia in business. [20] Population: 435,359 city; 853,415 district. [21] 1916 23 February: German ships seized at Lisbon; Germany subsequently declares war on Portugal, which officially enters World War I. Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro Museum opens. [22]
Ofri Bibas Levi, the sister-in-law of Shiri Bibas, an Israeli hostage kidnaped during the Oct. 7 attack in southern Israel, holds a family picture of Bibas and one of her two boys, at Moshav Giv ...
The club's first title came from the basketball team, which won the 1942/43 Regional Championship of Lisbon. This was the first of five Lisbon Championships won within a decade. The basketball team also won the Cup of Honour (predecessor of the Portuguese Cup) in 1943/44, a 2nd Division title in 1943/44, and a Portuguese Cup in 1953/54.
1500s; 1510s; 1520s; 1530s; See also: List of years in Portugal: Events in the year 1515 in Portugal. Incumbents. King of Portugal and the Algarves: Manuel I; Events