BARCELONA FOOTBALL CLUB MUSEUM AND TOUR

If you can't get a ticket to see one of Europe's top football teams in action, then at least visit the Barcelona Football Club Museum, the city's most visited museum after the Picasso Museum, and book a stadium tour of the Nou Camp.  Even those who loathe football can't help marveling at the vast Camp Nou stadium, which seats more than 98,000 spectators. The museum, under the terraces, presents a triumphant array of trophies, photographs and replays of highlights in the club's history before leading you to the shop, where everyone can buy that essential club shirt, scarf, badge .

FC Barcelona, or Barca for short, is more than a football club. During the Franco era, it stood as a Catalan symbol around which people could rally, and this emotional identification still remains today. It also explains why this legendary club has the world's largest soccer club membership (more than 140,000 members) and why the streets still erupt with ecstatic revelers following a win over arch-rivals, Real Madrid.