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Italian Serie A club Juventus will mark the 40th anniversary of the Heysel Stadium disaster by building a memorial near Allianz Stadium.
May 29, 2025 will mark 40 years since 39 football fans were killed at the 1985 European Cup final between Juventus and Liverpool in Brussels.
The majority of the fans were Juventus supporters, and the club has announced plans to honour the dead with a memorial spanning two thousand square metres.
The structure will be built in the coming months in a green area near Allianz Stadium, Juventus’ training centre and the club’s headquarters. It will centre on a 65-metre platform that will feature a light centrifugal spiral shape, rising more than three metres from the ground.
A neon light will be placed inside the structure and will be positioned along the adjoining path, making it visible from a considerable distance. A telescope will be placed at the end of a ramp, with visitors invited to look out onto the horizon.
The project has been dubbed ‘Verso Altrove’, which translates to ‘elsewhere’ in English. It is being led by art critic Luca Beatrice and renowned international artist Luca Vitone. The structure will feature Ginkgo Biloba trees and lavender bushes.
“The very choice of the tree species that will be planted is strongly symbolic: lavender refers to the olfactory call of dreamlike sensations, often present in Vitone’s works, while the Ginkgo Biloba is an ancient tree, whose origins date back millions of years, to the Mesozoic era, considered a living fossil representing resistance, the synthesis in its sap of past and future,” Juventus said in a statement.
“’Verso Altrove’ will therefore not just be a memorial, but a poetic object, an area that will become an active space which will invite the public to remember what has been, in an ideal path of asceticism, aimed at the future, at life. Elsewhere.”
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