Euro Basket 2009 will be held from 7 to 20 September in seven Polish cities - Warsaw, Lodz, Wroclaw, Poznan, Bydgoszcz and Gdansk. In the C group meet teams of Serbia, Spain, Slovenia and Great Britain, the first phase matches will be played in the capital of Poland, in the Hall "Torwar" capacity of 5,000 seats.
Warsaw, the eighth largest city in the European Union, the Poles is a symbol of suffering and perseverance of a people. The town was heavily damaged in II World War, and remained famous for brutally crushed the uprising in the "Jewish ghetto" 1943. After the war, Poland were able to restore their capital, according to the pre-war appearance, so that the city has not lost pre-war spirit and charm.
Matches the first group, which will compete Greece, Croatia, Israel and Macedonia, will feature in the "Arena" in Poznan, a city which is famous for the magnificent Cathedral of St. Peter and Paul, founded by King Boleslaw the Brave.
The ancient city, which is now live for more than 500,000 people, was the capital of Poland in the period before income Christianity, and in recent history, known for its protests against the communist regime, which broke out 1956.
Rivals from the B group, the selection of Russia, Germany, France and Latvia, hybridize spears on the shores of the Baltic Sea, in Gdansk.
It seems that no city can not be so symbolic to tell the history of the second half of the twentieth century as Gdansk, once Danzig. German-Polish border dispute was the reason for the outbreak of II World War, when the outbreak of the strike in the shipyard, "Lenin" marked the beginning of the end "haldnog war".
At the European Championships Gdansk will offer participants the group B hall "Olivia", the capacity for 5500 seats.
Group D games are scheduled in Wroclaw in Sentenijal hall, old hall was built more 1913 year, which can accommodate about 7,000 seats.
Center of mining and industrial area of Silesia Wroclaw has grown into a modern city with about 700,000 inhabitants. In the past, it is difficult destroyed twice - in the time of the invasion of the Tatars in the XIII century and during the Reformation three centuries later. One of the two biggest Polish national basketball team, Šljonsk, their matches played in Wroclaw.
In the second stage of the competition, participants are expected duels in Bydgoszcz, one of the centers of the central part of Poland, and Lodz, the city hall of 11,500 seats.
The final part of the tournament will be held in Katowice, in the Hall "Spodek" widely famous for noisy fans that his team give great support. Katowice with about 300,000 populations are just one of the connected cities in Silesia, which consists of a huge metropolis with over two million people. Unlike other cities host EuroBasket, Katowice were only established in the 19th century as a mining village and its surroundings is rich in various minerals.
Until the Second World War in Katowice are mixed live Poles, Germans and Jews, and after the conflict the town was named Stalijngrad the Soviet communist leader.
