Home to Bahia, the city's biggest but second best club (the best is Vitória), the stadium was completely rebuilt after one of the upper terraces collapsed in 2007, killing seven people.
Construction of the new ground took over three years to complete; during construction, a disaster occurred at Ibrox in which part of the wooden terraces collapsed.
A crowd of 68,114 assembled for a Scotland v England match on 5 April 1902, but shortly after the kick-off one section of the terracing "collapsed like a trap door".
But a good portion of the building — including part of the rear terrace — has collapsed, perhaps from fire, perhaps from explosives, perhaps from both, and it's feared that there may be many more bodies in the rubble.
"But its terrace fell, and it collapsed on our house.
A cement terrace loaded with tourists collapsed at an island winery in Lake Erie today, killing one person and leaving about 30 seriously injured, the authorities said.
Relentless rains destroyed crops and, in central North Korea, sent mudslides into villages and towns, as terraces on denuded hills collapsed.
It took us about an hour to get from the new village to the terraces of the old village, where we collapsed in the shade to recover from the hike.
Multiple blocks of external levee material are observed in the depositional terrace area where the proximal part of the external levee has collapsed into the channel-belt; their presence characterizes the channel-belt boundary zone.
The sequence of degradation ranges from 'well maintained' (21%), 'fairly maintained' (44%), and 'partially collapsed' (23%) to 'completely collapsed' (11%) terraces.
