Metropolitano Stadium
The pitch that staged the 2019 Champions League final will host another in 2027 — and is shortlisted for the 2030 World Cup.
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Built for Madrid's failed 1997 World Athletics Championships bid, the original 20,000-seat venue sat closed for over a decade before Atlético Madrid took it over, tore it down, and reopened it in September 2017 with 68,456 seats. It has since grown to 70,692. Three naming rights partners in eight years track its ascent from abandoned athletics track to one of Europe's biggest club grounds.
What to look for
- The distinctive silhouette that gave the old venue its lasting nickname La Peineta — The Comb
- The sheer scale: 70,692 seats against the 20,000 capacity it had when it closed in 2004
- The two skyboxes added in the most recent expansion, alongside widened VIP sections and a dedicated accessibility platform
In the Rosas neighbourhood of San Blas-Canillejas, next to the M-40 motorway and a short distance from Madrid–Barajas Airport — on the eastern edge of the city.
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More to see in Madrid
- BernabéuThe only stadium on earth to host both a UEFA Champions League final and a Copa Libertadores final — and the first in Europe to crown both a World Cup and a Euro.
- Museo del PradoThe Spanish royal collection — 7,600 paintings accumulated over centuries — opened to the public in November 1819 and never looked back.
- Royal Palace of MadridThe original Alcázar burned to the ground on Christmas Eve 1734 — what the Bourbons built in its place is the largest palace in Western Europe.
- Museo Reina SofíaGuernica — Picasso's 1937 painting of wartime devastation — hangs here at full scale, in person.
- Real Academia Española (Royal Spanish Academy)A duke's private library meeting in 1711 grew into the institution that still rules what counts as correct Spanish — for Spain and 22 other Spanish-speaking nations.
- Almudena CathedralMadrid became Spain's capital in 1561 and waited over 300 years for a cathedral — then took another 110 years to finish it.