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Wikipedia: Estádio Mineirão (meaning Big Mineiro Stadium), officially Estádio Governador Magalhães Pinto (Governor Magalhães Pinto Stadium) established in 1965 after Governor Magalhães Pinto, is the largest football stadium in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, and the second largest of the country. It will be a host stadium in the 2014 FIFA World Cup to be held in the country. On February 25, 1960, the government of the Union and the Federal University of Minas Gerais gave Minas Gerais land in the neighborhood of Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, for the construction of the stadium.
![[The interior of Estádio Mineirão as seen on a non-match day.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Mineir_C3_A3o_empty_interior_s.jpg "The interior of Estádio Mineirão as seen on a non-match day.")
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![[View of the stadium's entrance from ground level.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Mineir_C3_A3o_entrance_s.jpg "View of the stadium's entrance from ground level.")
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