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Fundidora Park is a public park located east of Monterrey, Mexico in the old land of Fundidora de Acero de Monterrey.

History and location

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Economy of Mexico.

This urban sustainable park is located inside the former Monterrey Foundry Property with an area of . The Monterrey Foundry (Monterrey Steel Foundry Company) operated from 1900 until its bankruptcy in 1986. Two years later, after being legally declared financially insolvent, the Fideicomiso Fundidora (Fundidora Escrow) was installed to administer the Park. The park has several industrial buildings from the Old Foundry making it a top famous Archeological Industrial Site in Mexico.

Fundidora Park contains extensive walking tracks, one artificial lake, playgrounds for children and a permanent road course which is popular with joggers, bicyclists and inline skaters. Fundidora Park also includes a CINTERMEX which is a convention center, a hotel, the Mabe Fundidora Ice Rink, Sesame Street Park, the Monterrey Arena, an auditorium, Centro de las Artes CONARTE (Council for the Culture and Arts of Nuevo León) museum, Cineteca Nuevo León and other smaller buildings with cultural venues.

Buildings

Monterrey Arena

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Arena Monterrey

Main article: Monterrey Arena

Arena Monterrey is an indoor arena in Monterrey, Mexico. It is primarily used for concerts, shows and indoor sports like indoor soccer or basketball. It used to be the home arena of the Monterrey Fury indoor soccer team and the Fuerza Regia, a professional basketball team in the Liga Nacional de Baloncesto Profesional and the Monterrey La Raza, a team in the NISL.

The Arena Monterrey is owned by Publimax S.A. de C.V. (TV Azteca Northeast), part of the Avalanz Group, who owns 80% and by TV Azteca who owns 20%. The arena is 480,000 square feet (45,000 m²) in size.

Parque Plaza Sésamo

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Sesame Street Park entrance

Parque Plaza Sésamo is a thematic park devoted to the Sesame Street franchisee, along with the local adaptation known as Plaza Sésamo. This park was inaugurated in 1995.

Aquamundo

In this place there are water attractions like: Rio féliz, Aquaventuras, Locoboganes, Flash y Superflash, Rápidos y Superápidos.

Isla Aventura

Llantas, Asoleadero, Mar aventura y Mar bucaneros.

Villasesamo

Space shot, Trenecito, Grand Prix, Ovni, Burbujas, Tornado, Count Count Castle.

Museo de Acero

El museo de acero es una construccion hecha completamente de acero. Expone trabajos de artistas acericos, como Octavio Paz, Miguel Hidalgo, Van Gogh, Cuauhtemoc Blanco, entre otros. Este es historico por su acero fino. Es un gran lugar que recordaremos con carino y nostalgia.

Visualscapes

• Torre de la Fundidora.jpg

  post-industrial Tower

• Steel mill Fundidora Park.jpg

  Steel Mill Structure

• Parque Fundidora (2).jpg
• Parque Fundidora.jpg

  Green Field

• Structure in Fundidora Park.jpg
• Parque Fundidora (Monterrey).jpg
• Fountain in Parque Fundidora.jpg

  Fountain

Events

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Expo Center @ the Old Lewis Building.
Host of the 2007 Universal Forum of Cultures.

• The Champ Car World Series Grand Prix of Monterrey was held from 2001 to 2006 (see Tecate/Telmex Grand Prix of Monterrey).
• Fundidora Park has been the venue of UN and OEA summits.
• On February 26, 2006, the Fundidora Park raceway hosted the A1 Grand Prix racing series.
• The park was the center of the 2007 Universal Forum of Cultures. For this event, an area of was joined to the 120 original hectares and also was joined to the city's Great Plaza by the Santa Lucia Riverwalk.

A1GP race history

Season	Sprint Race Winner	Feature Race Winner
2005–2006	Alexandre Premat	Alexandre Premat

See also

• List of preserved historic blast furnaces

External links

• Fundidora Park official website
• Mabe Fundidora Ice Rink: localized at Fundidora Park, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon
• Centro de las Artes CONARTE
• Fundidora Park Slideshow