Venue: Palazzetto dello Sport
Address: Piazza Apollodoro 1, I-00199 Roma
Town: Rome, IT
Capacity: 3,500

The Palazzetto dello Sport (literally "Small Sport Palace"), also less commonly known as the PalaTiziano or PalaFlaminio, is an indoor arena that is located in Piazza Apollodoro, in Rome, Italy. It has a 3,500 seating capacity for basketball games. The venue was constructed along with the 11,500-seat Palazzo dello Sport, for the 1960 Summer Olympics. It was inaugurated on October 1, 1957 with a construction cost of $425,000 (USD). Placed between the Auditorium Parco della Musica Ennio Morricone and the Maxxi - Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI secolo, the PalaTiziano is relatively close to the Olympic Stadium. It was designed by architect Annibale Vitellozzi. Vitellozzi came up with the design in the year prior. Its reinforced thin-shell concrete dome was engineered by Pier Luigi Nervi under the direction of Engineer Giacomo Maccagno. During the Olympics, the arena hosted the basketball events, among other sports. Since then it has also been used for volleyball matches and other events such as concerts and shows. Construction began in July 1956 and was completed on September 15, 1957. Following a long era of disuse the dome was meticulously restored and reopened in October of 2023. At various times over the years, the arena has been home to the Italian professional basketball team, Virtus Roma. The team played there from its foundation, until the early 1980s, and also for a period of several years at the start of the current millennium, when its regular home venue at the Palazzo dello Sport was being renovated. The team moved back to the arena in 2011, as the Palazzo dello Sport (since renamed PalaLottomatica), had high management costs and Virtus Roma was out of EuroLeague competition at the time. The club moved back to the PalaLottomatica in 2018 as the renovation of PalaTiziano was approaching. The facility incorporates a first-aid center, four groups of dressing rooms, along with an officials dressing room, a medical sports centre, a management office, a press