The Spanish Basketball Experience: Barcelona

Meet your Tour Director and check into hotel

Welcome meeting and orientation

Participate in a training session at a local court in the area.

Flowers, pedestrian boulevards, and decorative pavement make Barcelona a great walking city, and your Tour Director will show you where to stroll. See the Mercat de la Boquería, where the bright colors of fruits and vegetables, spices, fresh seafood and meat vie for space in the market stalls. In the city center you'll see the Monument a Colom, a towering statue of Christopher Columbus. Gaze at the city stretched out before you, the mountains in the distance, and the Mediterranean Sea at your back. Then it's on to the best walk in the city, Las Ramblas, a mile-long pedestrian street that offers up the carnival of urban Barcelona. Have your palm read or browse through the strip's famous open-air shops. Enough walking for one day? Pull up a chair, order a café con leche, and watch the parade of street performers from your seat.

Tour the pointy spires of the La Sagrada Familia (Church of the Holy Family), a half-finished church complex that became the obsession of Barcelona's famously eccentric architectural genius, Antoni Gaudí.

Play an international exhibition game against a local club or university team in the Barcelona area. Your team will meet and compete against athletes of similar ages and skill levels.

Serve as global sports ambassadors and spread the love of sport to the youth of another country or support a local community. These opportunities can take different forms, including providing a coaching clinic for a youth or special needs team, working with a local school, or supporting community projects and events.

Become a 'Cules' for the day when you visit the largest stadium in Europe and the home of the great FC Barcelona.

Spend time in Parc Güell, part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site, 'Works of Antoni Gaudi.' Designed primarily by Gaudí, particularly interesting areas of the park include a mosaic pagoda, a lizard fountain spitting water, an undulating bench decorated with ceramic fragments, and an array of unique Doric columns, which are hollow and serve as part of Gaudí's drainage system.

Girona is a beautiful medieval city that stands out from the local landscape. Populated at one point by Romans, Arabs, and Jews, the city has a unique archeological heritage that is well worth a visit. Enjoy a Walking Tour of Girona. We begin along the Riu Onyar, admiring Girona's best-known view, before exploring the Rambla de la Libertat and El Call, the medieval Jewish Quarter, where the first Hanukkah celebration since the Jewish expulsion of 1482 was celebrated in 1998.

Play an international exhibition game against a local club or university team in the Girona area. Your team will meet and compete against athletes of similar ages and skill levels.

Participate in a training session at a local court in the area.

Free time in Barcelona

Explore Barcelona’s Montjuïc, the focal point of two of the city’s key international events: the World’s Fair of 1929, of which many structures still remain; and the 1992 Olympic Games. Montjuïc features the largest "green zone" in the city with miles of forests and parks.

Relax on the white sandy beaches, walk down the bustling boardwalk, or stop at a tapas bar for a snack in Barcelona’s La Barceloneta neighborhood.

Montserrat is famous for its monastery, its caves, its weirdly shaped crags of rock, and its amazing mountain. The town lies just 40 km northwest of Barcelona and is a summer escape for many.

Play an international exhibition game against a local club or university team in the Montserrat area. Your team will meet and compete against athletes of similar ages and skill levels.