I will post here some updated photos of all 12 World Cup stadiums in Brazil. One stadium per post. I will post in the same order as below, so if you want updates in the stadiums still under construction, scroll down to them.

 

 

 

6 stadiums were ready for the Confederations Cup last year:

 

Maracanã - Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro state)

Mineirão - Belo Horizonte (Minas Gerais state)

Arena Pernambuco - Recife (Pernambuco state)

Arena Fonte Nova - Salvador (Bahia state)

Estádio Nacional - Brasilia (Federal District)

Castelão - Fortaleza (Ceará state)

 

other 6 stadiums will be ready for the World Cup 2014

 

Beira Rio - Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul state)

Arena da Baixada - Curitiba (Paraná state)

Arena Corinthians - São Paulo (São Paulo state)

Arena das Dunas - Natal (Rio Grande do Norte state)

Arena da Amazônia - Manaus (Amazonas State)

Arena Cuiabá - Cuiabá (Mato Grosso State)

 

 

MARACANÃ

 

 

inside the stadium

colors used depend on the teams playing. Above matches are from Flamengo (black and red). Below, a Fluminense match illumination

 

 

MINEIRÃO

 

 

Edited April 16, 201412 yr by AcesHigh

Arena Pernambuco

 

Arena Fonte Nova

for the Confeds Cup and World Cup, a temporary stand closing the stadium gap is built, elevating the stadium capacity

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Estádio Nacional

 

 

Look how much free space there is surrounding each of these stadiums.

 

No wonder we're struggling to expand Stamford Bridge. 

Castelão

 

Look how much free space there is surrounding each of these stadiums.

 

No wonder we're struggling to expand Stamford Bridge. 

 

Brasilia is a planned city built in the 60s. The area where the stadium is built was already designed to have that free space and the new stadium was built over an old one.

 

Arena Pernambuco was built on the very outskirts of the city, VERY FAR from downtown Recife.

 

Fonte Nova is a very old stadium that was demolished and rebuilt. The park space around was already there.

 

Maracanã was built for the 1950 World Cup. So there was more space in that area of Rio to build the complex.

 

Mineirão was built in the 60s. Some 10km north of Belo Horizonte´s downtown. In that time, the area had almost no settlement, and a huge park with the stadium was built there.

 

Castelão was also built several decades ago, somewhat far from denser areas.

 

 

Plus, all of these first 6 stadiums are PUBLIC (usually belong to municipalities or state governments). That means they were built in areas that either already belonged to the government and had not been opened to private development, or that a lot public money was used to buy areas/resettle people.

 

When I post the other 6 stadiums (plus two bonus modern stadiums that are not in the World Cup), a few are private, and you will see two stadiums in very dense areas. (Allianz Park and Arena da Baixada)

Looking good cant wait

Looking good cant wait

How much posts until next page? I need to post photos of the other 6 stadiums, but I am afraid posting on this same page can make viewing difficult for mobile users and the ones with low video memory, etc.

found these good aerial images of the Arena Pernambuco...

 

the city of Recife, in the background

the 6 other stadiums, completed this year.

 

Beira Rio

 

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Arena das Dunas

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Arena da Amazônia

 

Arena Pantanal

 

 

Arena da Baixada

 

 

 

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Arena Corinthians

 
 

the stadium is all MARBLE AND GRANITE inside

 

LED façade

 

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BONUS - World Cup class stadiums that will not be in the Cup (except as training grounds)

Grêmio Arena (Porto Alegre, same city as Beira Rio)
 

 

 

 

Allianz Park (Palmeiras Stadium, also in São Paulo, as Arena Corinthians)

 

 

Aside from the Arena Panthanal they all look fantastic, you wonder how much money the government spent on building/redeveloping them though when there is so much poverty in the country.

Edited April 24, 201412 yr by Jonty

Aside from the Arena Panthanal they all look fantastic, you wonder how much money the government spent on building/redeveloping them though when there is so much poverty in the country.

 

Gremio Arena, Beira Rio, Allianz Park, Arena Corinthians and Arena da Baixada are private.

 

the others are public but it´s states/cities money. The total sum of money spent on the public stadiums is about 3.5 billion dollars.

I think this photo shows the dense area where Arena da Baixada is located

Curitiba's Arena da Baixada seat placement finished! (in the middle it´s desks for the media)

Arena Corinthians first test

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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and Arena Corinthians in it´s first test match yesterday

Arena Corinthians

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited May 21, 201412 yr by AcesHigh