Rise and shine!
The first morning I had in Barcelona was serene, especially by looking at my room balcony that face towards Placa de Catalunya.
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| Placa de Catalunya in the morning |
Since I still had a box of Laduree Macaron that I bought in Paris the day before, so I opened my sacred macaron and enjoy it while watching morning activities at Placa de Catalunya.
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| Breakfast with Laduree with Placa de Catalunya view |
Agenda for that day was to visit Nou Camp. The stadium for one of the biggest football club in the world: Barcelona FC. I guess most people in Barcelona love football, even the bell boy at our hotel was also inspired to be a football player, but then he said he's not good enough so he quit.
We took a train t
o Palau Reial station and then took a walk from the station to the stadium. actually at when we arrived at the Avenue de Joan XXIII intersection, we turned to right instead of left, which made us had to walking around almost the full circle of the stadium just to find the entrance to the stadium. Actually if we turned to left, we only need to walk for 5 minutes to get to the entrance :(
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| the entrance gate |
After we enter, we wanted to get into the stadium, so we need to buy the Camp Nou tour ticket. There are some ticketing machines that are available and you can use credit cards if you don't have enough cash. The price of the tour was 23 euro per person.
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| Camp Nou tour ticket |
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| ticketing machine |
To get to the stadium, we had to go through a tunnel and then we will arrived at the trophy room where the team display all of its trophies and uniform from the beginning of the club up until now. There are also some special display for Barcelona FC best player, with one of the is Lionel Messi, my travelling partner's favorite footbal player.
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| the trophy room |
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| trophies |
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| Champion League trophies |
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| Lionel Messi's Golden Boot thophys |
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| Lionel Messi's FIFA Balon d'Or awards as best player |
After the trophy room, we came out to the upstairs bleacher, it's pretty crowded up there, so we just take a look for a while and continue the tour. Next is the conference room, then the locker room. I amazed that they have a little pool and massage tables in the locker room.
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| the conference room |
From the locker room, we walked to downstairs to the field. But before arrived at the field, I saw that they had a little chapel in there, so the football player can have some pray before the game start.
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| the little chapel |
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| the stairs to the field |
Then we arrived at the field, for me it looks like a regular stadium. Something amused me when I stand at the field, I saw the backup player bench. During my whole life I thought it was just a regular bench, but I was wrong, it was a super comfy bench. I guess I can stay sit there for 90 minutes without feeling stiff.
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| the field was covered with white cloth |
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| super comfy bench |
Another interesting part is the grass. There's a small part of the field grass that was being colored with Barcelona FC logo. And on the way out from the field we met the Camp Nou grass seller. They called it as the grass of the champion, but since it only meant grass to me, so I turned down the offer.
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| Logo on the grass |
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| Grass of the Champion |
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| view of the field from above |
On the way back to the entrance building, we realized that the board that standing along the tunnel that connect between the main stadium and the entrance building are consist of the sketch of Barcelona FC players.
The entrance building also the same building for Barcelona FC official merchandise store. So we took some time to find things that looks good but still affordable, and we came out with a plastic of jacket and magnet.
It will be better if we had more time to spend there, because if we had more time, then we'll be sitting for quite a while at the stadium and enjoying the food around the stadium (it has some interesting of food stalls). Gotta go!
XOXO,
The Tourist
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