Construction is underway on the Ice Palace of Jaca, one of the main sports venues of Jaca’s 2014 Winter Olympic bid, to be completed for the European Youth Festival in less than eleven months.
About 70 people are working on the facility in three daily shifts.
Rafael Blanco, General Director of Sports, has visited the construction site along with the Mayor of Jaca, Enrique Villarroya, Maria Teresa Samaranch, president of the Spanish Ice Sports Federation, and Jaca 2014’s General Manager Antonio Fernandez Arimany, who have all be impressed by the building.
The facility will be opened during the inauguration ceremony of the European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF) February 18, 2007.
The palace will have two ice rinks, one for competition and the other for recreational sports. The pavilion is 28 metres high from the ice level to the pavilion heights point, 130 metres in length and 60 metres wide.
If Jaca is chosen 2014 host city the Ice Palace will be the venue for the ice hockey competitions.
