History
Originally designed (rather belatedly) as a cattle market in the mid 1970s, for a city that had already abandoned its links with agriculture and was modernizing at a great pace, it was soon turned into a sports arena, which opened in 1991.
It was formerly known as Pabellón Araba until 2000, when the arena is named Fernando Buesa, a Spanish politician who was assassinated by ETA.
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