Spotify Camp Nou Stadium
Spotify Camp Nou Stadium
Camp Nou Experience
The Home FC Barcelona
Football fans should not miss this experience: the largest football stadium in Europe and one of the best football clubs in Spain are presented here.
Important Information:
The Camp Nou is currently under renovation and cannot be visited. It is being transformed into the new, even more modern Spotify Stadium. The construction works are expected to continue until 2026.
Meanwhile, matches are being held at the Olympic Stadium on Montjuic hill.
However, football fans can participate in an Immersive Experience about the players and the Camp Nou. This takes place just a few meters from the Camp Nou renovation site: Main access no. 15, C/ d’Arístides Maillol, s/n, 08028 Barcelona.
My Rating:
The positives:
For fans of football, Camp Nou, FC Barcelona’s stadium, is an absolute must do sight.
The negatives:
The hefty price of at least 26 Euro doesn't include an audio guide anymore! The non-fans accompanying the soccer enthusiasts will have to grit their teeth for this one.
Top Tip:
Very long queue in summer. On-site Prices are a lot higher!
Last Modification: 20.09.2023 | Céline
Camp Nou Experience
tickets
Camp Nou tickets | Price | Information | Buy Ticket |
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Basic Ticket | EUR 28 | Visit to the museum + audio guide + Spotify Camp Nou Live immersive room | Buy ticket |
EUR 37 | Time-unbound ticket, skip the line, without audio guide | Buy ticket | |
Guided Tour | EUR 89 | VIP access and tour the Museum and Palau Blaugrana private areas + Official FC Barcelona Guide + Visit to the Barça dressing room area and player's private gym + Immersion in the press room + Step onto the basketball court + Barça gift | Book tour |
The details
at a glance
What is there
to see?
Soccer, soccer, soccer – or rather: Barca! Barca! Barca!
Fans of soccer should not miss out on the opportunity: the largest soccer stadium in Europe and one of the most successful clubs in Spain should absolutely be on your list.
Even the area in front of the stadium and the lines at the ticket counters are impressive (especially during the summer months). Once you have your tickets, you can enter the museum. There are audio guides, and yes, they are available in English and in many other languages. The audio guide is not included in the admission, but you should absolutely take advantage of it. It gives a great overview of the club’s history, the exhibits at the museum and the many, many rooms and hallways you can wander along.
The museum shows the club’s history, including the jerseys and shoes of famous players, trophies, posters, and paintings. After that, take a peek at the inside of the stadium: the changing rooms (for the away teams only, though) and the press conference room. And then you’ll enter the stadium itself. There’s also a multimedia room to round off the tour.
Camp Nou
A bit of history
Camp Nou (“The New Field”) was built from 1954 to 1957, and has been used by FC Barcelona ever since. It holds 99,354 spectators, making it the largest soccer stadium in Europe. The Michigan Stadium holds 107,601, but that’s an American football arena. Even famous Wembley Stadium has room for “only” 90,000 fans of soccer or rugby.
Camp Nou’s opening ceremony was accompanied by Georg Friedrich Händel’s “Hallelujah”, and even the Holy Madonna, normally at home at the Abbey of Monserrat, made the trip to bestow its blessing upon the site! 10,000 doves were released into the sky, and 1,800 fans performed the Sardaña, the national dance!
One of the greatest openings of all times! Luckily, Barca then won the opening game against Legia Warsaw, the final score being 4:2.
Both the stadium itself and FC Barcelona as a team hold many records. The club was founded in 1899 and has been very successful ever since. It’s an economic miracle in and of itself, and obviously, the club regularly faces off against such top teams as Bayern München, Real Madrid, and Chelsea FC in the Champions League. Messi alone has won the “Golden Shoe”, the award for the highest number of goals scored, six times so far.
The museum, too, holds a record of its own: in 2013, it was the most visited museum in Barcelona with 1,506,022 visitors – beating out even the Picasso Museum (915,226 visitors)! (Source: FC Barcelona website). Same in 2019 – it was beating again Picasso Museum and the MNAC. But as you can imagine, not the Sagrada Familia or Park Güell 😉
Official website of Camp Nou (EN): fcbarcelona.com
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