Cidade do Galo ("Rooster City") is Clube Atlético Mineiro's training ground, located in Vespasiano, a municipality adjacent to Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
[1][2] Acquisition of the land where the ground is located started in 1980, with purchase of an adjacent area and celebration of a partnership with company Precon for the construction of the main buildings happening in 1984.
The first training pitch was completed in 1982, but from 1985 to 1998 construction for the then named "Centro de Treinamento do Galo" remained largely stalled.
[3] From 2001 onwards construction restarted, and in 2005 the youth squads moved to the grounds, with the first-squad hotel being finished in 2006, the same year in which the facility was officially inaugurated by club president Ricardo Annes Guimarães.
[4] In 2008, Cidade do Galo hosted the Brazil national football team in preparation for a match against Argentina in Belo Horizonte, and in May 2010, a research conducted by Universidade Federal de Viçosa and SporTV, which evaluated human resources, material resources, physical facilities and logistics, elected Cidade do Galo as the best training facility in Brazil.