Soccer or football is the Italian national pastime, as baseball in US. Here every kid is able to kick a ball as it should be, trying to emulate super stars of SerieA.
If you are a sport fan, not necessarily a soccer fan, and you are planning a Tour of Italy you can’t miss a Tour of Italian soccer’s Cathedral: San Siro Stadium in Milan.
San Siro is the home of A.C. Milan and Inter Milan. Here they play their home games. The greatest champions of this sport played on this field memorable matches.
This stadium has seen lots of successes and trophies, and millions and millions of fans have been moved to tears after a great win or an awful loss.
Its view is breathtaking both from inside and from outside and every match is a great excitement.
It has been inaugurated in 1926 and strongly modernized twice. The first time in 1955, while the second time just before Italian FIFA World Cup in 1990. Its real name is “Stadio Giuseppe Meazza “ in honor of a great Italian champion, winner of two World Cup in 1934 and in 1938.
It’s one of the best stadium of all Europe together with Camp Nou of Barcelona and Old Trafford located in Manchester. It has a great capacity, more than 85.000 seats. If compared with other similar Stadiums of Italy it’s certainly the best of all.
The guided tour of the Stadium is very remarkable. Once inside the Stadium don’t miss the magnificent Museum of Milan and Inter, the first Italian Museum ever built inside a Stadium. The Museum shows the history of the two home teams, the classic jerseys and cups and trophies won in more than a century of great successes, plus hundreds of memorabilia.
Hours:
Both
Cost:
€ 12.50 if you decide to visit both the Museum and the Stadium,
€ 11.00 for copious groups with more than 20 people
€ 10.00 for under 14 and over 65 years old
Free for 6 years old and younger
€5.00 if you decide to visit only the Museum
Location:
The Stadium is located in
Website: http://www.sansirotour.com/index.html. The website is available even in English and Spanish
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