Kuipke
Sign in to saveKuipke or Citadel Park Velodrome is an indoor velodrome in Ghent, Belgium. It opened in 1927 and was rebuilt after a fire in 1965. It is best known from the Six Days of Ghent, held annually in November.
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- Kuipke (Gent)
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- Het Kuipke - Sportpaleis Gent
- date of official opening
- 1927-00-00
- inception
- 1927-00-00
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Kuipke or Citadel Park Velodrome is an indoor velodrome in Ghent, Belgium. It opened in 1927 and was rebuilt after a fire in 1965. It is best known from the Six Days of Ghent, held annually in November.
The velodrome is also used as an event hall for concerts and occasional basketball games. On 21 March 1959 Louis Armstrong performed in the Kuipke, and in 2014, it was the location for the live shows of the Flemish version of The Voice.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kuipke” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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