Portugal
Estádio da Luz
Estádio da Luz is a football stadium in Lisbon and the home of Portuguese
football giants SL Benfica. It is also called The Cathedral by SL Benfica
supporters. Luz is actually the area of Lisbon in which the Estádio da Luz
stands and the word luz happens to also mean light. As the people of Lisbon
often referred to the original stadium, demolished beginning in 2002, as
simply the light, the common English name for the stadium became the Stadium
of Light. The Stadium of Light in Sunderland may well have been inspired by
this Lisbon example, though it has other well established reasons for
bearing the name. The stadium hosted several matches during Euro 2004,
including the final between Greece and Portugal.
