New spaces for outdoor sports to the Palamartino Of Bari: the area outside the arena has been completed with padel, pickleball, beach volleyball courts and a skate area.
The goal of this realization is to make the Palamartinoin the Libertà district of Bari, a place multipurpose for sport, attractive and inclusive for the territory, citizens, athletes, with particular attention to young people and adolescents.
“Thanks to a beautiful collaboration between public and private, these new fields have been created in the external space of the Palamartino which, I am sure, will welcome many sportsmen, enthusiasts, or even just curious to try new sports such as pickleball“, commented the sports councilor Pietro Petruzzelli.
Saverio Fortunato, representative of the Duma sports club, manager of the facilities, is also satisfied and talks about the next season: “this summer, especially with the organization of sporting activities aimed at even the littlest ones, we will launch a summer camp which will be very varied thanks to the presence of these new fields and the possibility of practicing these disciplines outdoors“.
The details of the interventions carried out at the Palamartino
The external areas of the Palamartino – which in the original project were also supposed to host a parkour and calisthenics circuit, later set aside as it was already present in the nearby Maugeri park – extend over approximately 2000 square meters and host various sports fields:
- 1 regulation beach volleyball court located in the southern area, which is exposed to the sun for most of the year and therefore usable for several months. The area also lends itself well to the game of beach tennis. There are introductory beach volleyball/beach tennis activities, courses for adults and activities during the summer camp.
- 3 panoramic padel courts, which satisfy the growing demand for fields to practice this discipline. Also in this case, introductory padel activities, courses for adults and activities during the summer camp are planned.
- 1 pickleball court – one of the first to be built in the city – to give space to another rapidly expanding discipline that is played with a ball and two rackets inside the badminton court.
To this new realization in external areas of the Palamartino energy efficiency work is added, with the strengthening of the existing photovoltaic system by approximately 12 Kwh through the installation of further latest generation panels, for a total of approximately 19 Kwh.
It is also expected the use of a battery storage capacity (10 kilowatts) of the electricity produced by the photovoltaic system which will allow the energy produced during the day to be stored in order to be able to exploit it in the afternoon/evening hours.
These interventions together with the relamping of the gym envisaged by the municipal administration, will make it possible to achieve near electrical autonomy from the grid, thus achieving an important objective in terms of economic and environmental sustainability.
