Canaletes

This is Canaletes, the fountain where the Barcelona Football Club fans go to celebrate  victories. Smaller than you thought, uhm?

Canaletes

Do you want to know how this tradition started and why is it that they haven’t chosen somewhere bigger or emblematic?

In 1930 there was “La Rambla”, a newspaper, subtitled Sports and Citizens,  that had its offices in the building in front of where the fountain is now. Back then, because of the distance and due to not everybody had radios, it was quite difficult to know the results of the football matches, even more if the team played as visitor. 

With that in mind, the people working at the newspaper would write the scores on a blackboard and hang it outside the office, so everybody could see it. Loads of culés would gather there to read the scores of the Football Club Barcelona and, if it had won, they would, for sure, celebrate it right there, at the fountain.

That’s how the tradition, still valid even now, started. Since then, all the Football Club Barcelona fans meet up at Canaletes to celebrate their team’s victories.