Gigantium

Event location in Aalborg, Denmark

Gigantium

Location| Aalborg, Denmark
Coordinates| 57°1′5″N 9°57′45″E﻿ / ﻿57.01806°N 9.96250°E﻿ / 57.01806; 9.96250
Owner| Aalborg Municipality
Capacity| Concerts: 8,500
Handball: 5.500 (6.000 in Ice Arena)
Ice hockey: 6,000
Surface| Sports linoleum, hardwood, ice, artificial turf
Construction
Opened| 1999
Renovated| 2003 (arena)
Expanded| 2007, 2011, 2014
Architect| Arena: Schmidt hammer lassen
Ice arena: Friis & Moltke[1]
Tenants
Aalborg Håndbold (1999–present)
Danish Handball League (1999–present)
AaB Ishockey (2007–present)
Aalborg Pirates (2007–present)
Website
gigantium.dk

The Gigantium (called Sparekassen Danmark Arena for sponsoring reasons), in Aalborg, Denmark, is a large, rentable faire building, which hosts a large variety of concerts, markets and exhibitions, among other things.

It has a capacity of 5,500 people. For concerts, the capacity is 8,500 people. In addition, there is an ice rink/arena for training purposes, a swimming pool and an athletics hall within the sports complex. The main arena building was severely damaged by a fire on 5 July 2017.[2]

## Tenants

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Inside Gigantium Ice Arena (2016)

The main use of the arena is sport, and it is home to the Danish Handball League club Aalborg Håndbold and the elite Ice Hockey team Aalborg Pirates.

The ice hockey club AaB Ishockey also play their matches in an ice arena connected to the original Gigantium arena. AaB Ishockey is the amateur club having the license for professional ice hockey being used by Aalborg Pirates.

## Events

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Among many other events, the arena hosted Dansk Melodi Grand Prix, the Danish National Selection show for the Eurovision Song Contest in 2006, 2010, 2012, 2015 and 2018, along with the kids version MGP Junior, and was a candidate host venue for the Eurovision Song Contest 2014, but withdrew because of the city of Aalborg did not live up to the minimum requirements of having a minimum of 3000 hotel rooms available for fans and delegations coming to the contest.[3]

## See also

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* List of indoor arenas in Denmark
* List of indoor arenas in Nordic countries

## References

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1. ^ "Gigantium". Arkitekturbilleder.
2. ^ Ritzau /112, Af. "Gigantium i flammer: Stadig på bar bund". ekstrabladet.dk.`{{cite web}}`: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
3. ^ "Aalborg melder sig ud af Grand Prix-ræs" [Aalborg arises out of Grand Prix racing]. DR (in Danish). 17 June 2013. Archived from the original on 6 July 2013. Retrieved 17 June 2013.

## External links

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Gigantium.

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