Camp Nou Football Stadium and Museum

As the Football Club Barcelona is one of the most successful clubs in terms of official titles won both in Spain and Europe, it is no surprise that the Camp Nou, the home of FC Barcelona, became one of the most famous and visited football stadium in the world. As Barcelona's previous stadium, Camp de Les Corts, had no room for expansion, in 1954 began the construction of the Camp Nou. The Camp Nou (meaning "new stadium") was officially opened in 1957. It is currently the largest stadium in Europe with a 98,000-seater capacity. Once it was the same size as the Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro and the largest stadium in the world with capacity for 120,000 spectators but it has since been reduced in size for security reasons. The facilities of the stadium include a memorabilia shop, mini-pitches for training matches and a chapel for the players. The stadium also houses the second-most visited museum in Catalonia, FC Barcelona Museum, which receives more than 1.2 million visitors per year.