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First stone of the Ciutat Esportiva Joan Gamper

Date
2000
Archive
Municipal Archive of Sant Joan Despí
Document type
Imatge fixa
Reference code
CAT-AMSJD-101-AF0010270
Link to the online document
Description

Barça is the best-known Catalan institution around the world. This year marks the 125th anniversary and practically from the beginning it was “more than a club”.
In 2000, the construction works of the Ciutat Esportiva Joan Gamper began in Sant Joan Despí. With nine football pitches, three sports halls and the Masia (Oriol Tort Training Centre), it is a first-class facility in the sporting field.
This is a photograph of the laying of the first stone of the Ciutat Esportiva, where the authorities (the president of the club, Joan Gaspar and the mayor of Sant Joan Despí, Eduard Alonso) and historical players (Antoni Ramallets) and of the farmhouse (Jordi Alba), among others, appear.
The archives are spaces of memory and progress, with documents on sports activity and its clubs of great value, some of which are references in Europe.