3) SPORTS

Barcelona is a great city for professional sports. The great climate makes it ideal for outdoor activities. The city has enjoyed the top quality sporting infrastructure built for the most important events. Some of these sporting complexes include athletic and football stadiums, a velodrome, swimming pools, ice rinks and sporting marinas.

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FC Barcelona

Barcelona Football Club operates a number of sports teams in Barcelona, Catalonia. Its slogan is Barça is more than a club. The club's stadium is Camp Nou. It can host the biggest number of spectators out of all stadiums in Europe with 98 800 seats in total. Its official name is Nou Estadi del Futbol Club Barcelona. Barcelona are the legendary champions of Europe and Spain alike.

Barcelona has always been a city that lives and breathes sport. Today, and thanks in large part to the holding of the Olympic Games, a quarter of the city's population now regularly do some type of sport and have included physical exercise in their habitual activities. The people of Barcelona have seized the city's public spaces, squares, parks and new beaches and turned them into focal points of sports activities. And we must continue to advance in this direction. Facilitating access for everyone to a healthier lifestyle through physical exercise. Consolidating Barcelona's international role as a city of Sport.

There are much and diverse the sports that you can practice in Barcelona:

- Tennis: The world famous Conde de Godó International Trophi tournament takes place every April.

- Formula 1 Racing: The Formula 1 Grand Prix takes place in may at Montmeló.



- Sailing and Water sports: Sailing and water sports can be enjoyed to the full in Barcelona due to its close proximity to the sea. Several regattas are held every year during the spring and summer.

- Skiing: There are several ski resorts in the Pyrenees (Girona, Lleida), within easy access from Barcelona through the Cadí Tunnel.


And more than this sports, like: football, that you can see; basketball, it has a very important team; senderism in the mountains of Pirinees, and more...