Ta?majdan Sports and Recreation Center (Ta?majdan SRC; Serbian: ????????-??????????? ?????? ????????? (??? ?????????) / Sportsko-rekreacioni centar Ta?majdan (SRC Ta?majdan)), commonly known simply as Ta? (Serbian Cyrillic: ???; Ta? literally: Tash), is a sporting and recreational center located in the city of Belgrade, Serbia, which was founded by the Assembly of the City of Belgrade in 1958. At within the center located of the outdoor Ta?majdan Stadium, the Aleksandar Nikoli? Hall, the Pionir Ice Hall and a complex of outdoor and indoor swimming pools.
Video Ta?majdan Sports and Recreation Center
History
Built with white stone from Bra? island, and opened on 24 January 1954, by mid 2000s the stadium began showing signs of structural deterioration. Architect Mihajlo Jankovi?, was awarded the Belgrade's October award for architecture, the highest city award at the time, for the Ta?majdan project. Originally, the sports complex started as the ice factory, where people could by the so-called "hygienic ice".
Some of the best known happenings in the venue include: EuroBasket Women 1954, first Miss Yugoslavia contest in 1957 (won by Tonka Katunari?), 1957 World Women's Handball Championship (the inaugural world women championship), concerts of Alexandrov Ensemble in 1958 and later in the 1960s and 1970s of Mazowsze, Elton John, Ray Charles and Tina Turner and ice hockey matches with over 10,000 spectators. Yugoslav national tennis team played the Davis Cup matches in 1956 in Ta?majdan and the curiosities held in the facility include the chess with live figures, the football matches played by the Zastava 750 cars and the first Spanish corrida in Europe outside of Spain, when Luis Miguel Dominguín performed. Ta?majdan hosted the first FINA World Aquatics Championships in 1973.
After the 1977-78 season, the ice skating rink was dismantled in March 1978. Bad conditions of the facility in 2000s led many public personalities in Belgrade (Cane Kosti?, Neda Arneri?, Branko Cveji?) to urge the city government to do something about it. In mid-April 2009, the initiative called "Ta? je na?" (Serbian Cyrillic: ??? ?? ???; "Ta? is ours") was held to draw public attention to the sad state of the crumbling facility. In the summer of 2009 the stadium was closed for public due to the impending reconstruction. An extensive RSD550 million renovation began in September 2011 and originally, the reconstruction was to be finished in December 2012, then was postponed to 2014 and was finally completed in 2016. As the object is under the protection, the conceptual solution for the reconstruction had to fully preserve the original author's concept. Since 2016, the ice skating rink became operational again during the winter. It covers 1,800 m2 (19,000 sq ft) and though it worked only for less than 60 days in 2016, it had 30,000 visitors.
Maps Ta?majdan Sports and Recreation Center
Facilities
Ta?majdan Stadium
Pionir Sports Complex
Aleksandar Nikoli? Hall
Pionir Ice Hall
Swimming pools
Outdoor swimming pool
The outdoor swimming pool was opened on 25 June 1961, the event capacity is 2,500 and swimming beaches hold around 4,000 people.
Indoor swimming pool
The indoor swimming pool was opened on 13 December 1968. The pool has dimensions 50 × 20 m. The capacity for spectators is 2,000 seats. Within the same building there is a recreation center, a gym, a small swimming pool and a hotel named Ta?.
Notable basketball matches
Concerts
Over the decades, the open air stadium has hosted a variety of acts in late spring and summer from May to September:
1950s
- June 1955 - Big Bill Ramsay Orchestra
- 1955 - Berioska
1960s
- 1967 - Rita Pavone (opening act: Elipse)
1970s
- June 20, 1970 - Blood, Sweat & Tears (guest: Casey Anderson)
- 1970 - The Platters
- 1971 - Golden Gate Quartet
- 1972 - Juliette Gréco
- September 1, 1979 - Riblja ?orba ("Riblja ?orba ne?e da vam otima lovu - ulaz dva soma" | opening acts: Bulevar and Formula 4)
1980s
- June 10, 1982 - Zdravko ?oli? (Malo poja?aj radio Tour)
- June 10, 1983 - Galija (opening acts: Potop, Kerber)
- June 8, 1985 - Bajaga i Instruktori (Sa druge strane jastuka Tour)
- June 9, 1985 - Bajaga i Instruktori
- September 14, 1985 - Plavi Orkestar (guest: Nada Obri? | Soldatski bal Tour)
1990s
- September 15, 1990 - Riblja ?orba (Koza nostra Tour)
- September 17, 1993 - Ceca Veli?kovi? (guests: Viki Miljkovi?, Dara Bubamara)
- June 13, 1994 - Lepa Brena
- September 23, 1995 - Charity concert for the fallen soldiers' families (Riblja ?orba, Babe, Dejan Cuki? & Spori Ritam Band, Min?u?ari | guests: Mom?ilo Bajagi?)
- June 20, 1996 - Sinan Saki? (guests: Zlata Petrovi? and Suzana Jovanovi?)
- June 29, 1996 - Partibrejkers (Najbolje od najgoreg, opening act: Love Hunters)
- September 13, 1996 - Zabranjeno Pu?enje
- May 31, 1997 - Riblja ?orba (Po slobodnim gradovima Srbije Tour | opening acts: Rambo Amadeus, Prljavi Inspektor Bla?a i Kljunovi, Direktori, Indijanci, Aleluja, and Kraljevski Apartman)
- June 1, 1997 - Riblja ?orba
2000s
- May 18, 2002 - Lee Scratch Perry
- May 25, 2002 - Bajaga i Instruktori (guest: Vlatko Stefanovski | opening acts: Rade Rapido, Havana Whisper, Taboo, Flare)
- June 1, 2002 - Manu Chao (Próxima Estación: Esperanza Tour)
- June 28, 2002 - Femi Kuti
- July 26, 2002 - Motörhead (opening act: Ritam Nereda)
- June 5, 2003 - OK Band
- June 12, 2003 - Magazin
- June 20, 2003 - Van Gogh (DrUnder Tour)
- June 26, 2004 - Vlado Georgiev
- June 27, 2004 - Earth, Wind & Fire
- June 13, 2005 - Kraftwerk
- July 2005 - Zvezde Granda 2005 Final
- June 13, 2006 - Sisters of Mercy
- July 30, 2006 - Whitesnake (opening acts: AlogiA, Kraljevski Apartman)
- August 16, 2006 - Toto (opening act: Neverne Bebe)
- September 15, 2006 - Sinan Saki? (guest: ?emsa Suljakovi?)
- September 16, 2006 - Rock 'n' Roll ?kola (Partibrejkers, Obojeni Program, Veliki Prezir, Jarboli, Neno Belan & Fiumens, Elektrobuda, Repetitor)
- June 21, 2007 - The Cult
- September 15, 2007 - Zvezde Granda 2007 Final (Du?an Svilar, Rada Manojlovi?, Milan Stankovi?, Slobodan Batjarevi?, Silvija Nedeljkovi?, Nemanja Stevanovi?, Milan Din?i?)
- August 29, 2008 - Sinan Saki? (guests: Vanesa ?ok?i?, B3, Rule)
- September 5, 2008 - Jelen Pivo Live 2008 (Iggy & The Stooges, Elektri?ni orgazam, Dinosaur Jr.)
- September 6, 2008 - Jelen Pivo Live 2008 (Strip, Shiroko, Majke, Disciplina ki?me, The Lemonheads, Partibrejkers)
2010s
- April 22, 2016 - Opening of the renovated stadium (Riblja ?orba, Van Gogh, Piloti, Galija, and Elektri?ni Orgazam)
- June 11, 2016 - Prljavo Kazali?te
- June 18, 2016 - Partibrejkers
- June 22, 2016 - John Newman (Belgrade Calling Festival, others: Artan Lili)
- June 23, 2016 - Simply Red (Belgrade Calling Festival, others: Jinx, Natali Dizdar)
- June 25, 2016 - Vlado Georgiev
- May 27, 2017 - D?enan Lon?arevi? (guest: Emina Jahovi?, Sergej ?etkovi?, Zorica Brunclik)
- June 3, 2017 - Sinan Saki? (guest: Muharem Serbezovski, Juice, Dragan Koji? Keba)
- June 10, 2017 - Kiki Lesendri? & Piloti
- June 15, 2017 - Darko Rundek
- June 17, 2017 - Lexington Band
- June 24, 2017 - Parni Valjak
Other
It was also the venue for the final programme in the 1981 series of:
- September 8, 1981 - Jeux Sans Frontières (Inter-European game show), International Final
References
External links
- Official website
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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