The legendary Tivoli Hall sports park is celebrating its 50th anniversary. The milestone will be commemorated on Thursday, 16 April 2015 at 8 p.m. with the "50 Years of Tivoli Hall" event.

Tivoli Hall, the legendary sports building beneath the Rožnik hill was designed by the architects Marjan Božič and Stanko Bloudek and it still standing after a half of century; it was build between November 1963 and March 1965. The building hosted many musical and sports legends during this time and it was also a venue for important moments in the Slovenian (before that Yugoslavian) history.

In the day Tivoli Hall stood for the most modern hall in this part of Europe. The newly built hall hosted its first guest on 4 April 1965 – Louis Armstrong, the legendary American jazz musician, who packed the venue. Some of the other artists who performed here are B. B. King, Ike & Tina Turner, Joe Cocker, Bob Dylan, David Bowie, Dire Straits, Boney M, Bryan Adams, Sting, The Cure, Iron Maiden, Ray Charles, Deep Purple and Nirvana, who played their ever final concert in 1994 in Tivoli Hall.

The hall is mostly intended for sports events, thus it is comprised of two courts, hockey and basketball. It hosted the World Table Tennis Championship in 1965 and the World Ice Hockey Championship – Group A the following year, which also occurred five more time since then. It was also the venue of the unforgettable World Basketball Championship in 1970, when Yugoslavia celebrated the title of the world champion due to the legendary final throw of Ivo Daneu. The World Figure Skating Championship and the World Artistic Gymnastics Championship also took place that year; Miro Cerar won a gold medal in the pommel horse category. Many world championships followed – the World Weightlifting Championship in 1982, the World Nine-pin bowling Championship two years later and the Men's World Ice Hockey Championship in 1993 and 2010, Group C and Group B respectively.

Tivoli Hall hosted over 30 million visitors in its 50 years.