Estadio del CASI

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The Estadio del Club Atlético San Isidro (officially Cancha No. 1 de Rugby), nicknamed La Catedral, is a rugby union stadium in downtown San Isidro in the homonymous partido of Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is owned and operated by Club Atlético San Isidro being the home venue to the club's rugby senior team. The stadium, with capacity for 4,500 spectactors, has been the venue for the URBA Top 12 finals since 2008 under the playoffs system established by the Unión de Rugby de Buenos Aires in 1998. For matches of this kind, temporary tubular stands are added, increasing its capacity to 10,000. CASI's is one of the oldest sports venues in Argentina so the club has always been on the same site since 1902, when Manuel Aguirre, owner of a large chacra on Sánez Peña street, gave the club a portion to settle down there.

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