The Estadio Único Madre de Ciudades is a football stadium located in the city of Santiago del Estero in the homonymous province of Argentina.
[3] On 13 April 2018, Santiago del Estero's governor Gerardo Zamora, along with the Argentine Football Association (AFA)'s president Claudio Tapia, presented a new stadium project in the province, which was accepted.
[4] In 2010, the architect and former president of Estudiantes de La Plata, Enrique Lombardi,[1] named the project as the winner of a local competition.
The stadium was built on a site located to the north of the city of Santiago del Estero on the banks of the Dulce River.
The land is surrounded by Carretero Bridge and the city's botanical garden, and is connected to the Tren al Desarrollo by a station.
The construction of the stadium received criticism by some parts of the press for being carried out in the midst of the economic crisis that plagued the country, the government's struggle to restructure Argentina's debt.
The stadium was also criticized for being considered a priority of the provincial government, ahead of the existing poverty situation in the province of Santiago del Estero (about 70%).