L'Estadi Camp Nou, the home base of Futbol Club Barcelona, is located close to the city centre and easily accessible by metro. It was a walking distance from Pere Tarres, the hostel where my friends were staying at. I took the metro and get off at Les Corts station, walk 20 minutes to the hostel to meet up with my friends, and then walk to Camp Nou for 35 minutes. It was around 8am, so we got a healthy dose of the morning sun. I had to catch a flight to Amsterdam at 3pm so I wanted to go to Camp Nou as early in the day as possible.
To put it shortly, I didn't expect touring the Barca's home to be that much fun. I wasn't there for an actual match, but they designed the tour so that we felt like we were there for the real deal. With a capacity of almost 100,000 people, the stadium was just spectacular.
The tour took us to the stadium's conference room (where I got to touch their latest UEFA Championship League Trophy), player's changing rooms and massage rooms, lower bowl and upper bowl, praying room where the players get blessed by a priest before every home match, VIP section, and the commentator box. At the beginning and the end of the tour was the museum and FCBotiga, the club's official merchandise store.
We got to stood on the grass where the greatest soccer player ever, Lionel Messi, were being molded into who he is today. Look at my shirt. I really dressed for success that day (and so did my friend Bob).
Pictures from FC Barcelona's Museum and Store:
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