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Indescribable Stadium Barcelona
he Barcelona football Board of Directors, presided by
stadium is the 3rd largest Agustí Montal Galobart, purchased
football stadium in the a plot of land next to the
World after the stadiums in Sao Maternitat, fairly close to the
Paulo, Brazil and Mexico City. site of the old Les Corts ground.
Barcelona camp nou has a capacity
of 110,000 people and on every The issue was left on hold until
match practically every seat is Francesc Miró-Sans was elected
taken -such is the passion for president of FC Barcelona. The
football shared by the Catalan new president was particularly
people. insistent that the project for a
new stadium should go ahead
When Kubula arrived, the old Les immediately and one of the first
Corts stadium proved to be too things he did after coming to
small and it was necessary to power was to situate the new site
find a new site. From when the on the land purchased in 1950 and
idea was first thought of until not at the top of the Diagonal.
the day it was opened on 24th So it was that, on March 28, in
September 1957, there were front of 60,000 fans, he laid the
difficult moments for the Camp first stone of the Camp Nou,
Nou, but the dream eventually watched by the president of the
became a reality. Civil Government, Felipe Acedo
Colunga, and blessed by the
The Old Football Ground had been Archbishop of Barcelona, Gregorio
founded back in 1922, and after Modrego.
several extensions, was able to
hold 60,000 spectators, a figure The project for the new stadium
that was practically impossible was entrusted to the architects
to increase any more. So, on Francesc Mitjans Miró, Miró-Sans
September 19, 1950, FC Barcelonas cousin, and Josep Soteras Mauri,
under collaboration with Lorenzo Stadiums hymn with lyrics by
García Barbón. However, later the Josep Badia to the music of Adolf
Club handed the construction Cabané.
rights to INGAR SA.
On that day of the Mercè festival
The date for the inauguration of in 1957, the city was clothed in
the Estadi was set at September the colors of the Club. The
24, 1957. An organizing committee inauguration began with a solemn
was formed to plan a special mass and the blessing of the
opening ceremony, which was stadium by the Archbishop of
presided by Aleix Buxeres and Barcelona, Gregorio Modrego.
Nicolau Casaus. On September 21
in the Barcelona Councils The terraces of the Camp Nou,
Assembly Room, José Maria de still not quite complete, were
Cossío, a member of the Real opened to more than 90,000
Academia Española, read the people, as representatives of all
proclamation that officially of the football clubs of
opened the celebrations of the Catalonia paraded across the
inauguration of the new stadium. field, along with members of the
That September weekend, members sections of the Club, Barcelona
of different sections of the Club fan clubs and different teams
appeared in a series of belonging to the Club. The hymn
international sports meetings at was then sung, followed, at four
the Les Corts stadium and the thirty in the afternoon, by the
Palau Municipal dEsports. Those inaugural match. FC Barcelona
important events were enough to played a Polish team from Warsaw.
inspire the renowned poet Josep During the break, 1,500 members
M. de Sagarra to write a sonnet of the Agrupació Cultural
entitled Blau Grana, and the Folklòrica de Barcelona danced an
creation of the FC Barcelona enormous sardana and 10,000 doves
were set free. And so began a new Barcelona.
era in the history of FC
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