The Stade de France, the tour

Is it possible to visit the Stade de France? Certamente!! Certainly! And the visit organized not only limited to the stands or field of play but also to all the hidden parts and usually inaccessible to the simple result of the hundreds of events that take place here.
Here the numbers:

• 81,338 spectators in configuration football / rugby;
• 70,000 spectators at athletic configuration;
• 1998 the year of opening;
• 46 meters height at which it has great coverage;
• € 346 million development cost (excluding fees).

To get there, as well as numerous bus lines that have their stop a few feet away, you can make good use of the RER line B and get off at La Plaine-Stade de France, but this is just 800 meters from the stadium and it is therefore necessary cover a wide tree lined sidewalk along the 'Avenue du Stade de France to be able to reach, in the neighborhood go down on your right and following his recizione H enter the gate. From here you enter the boutique, gift shop where you can buy tickets for the tour. ( SEE MAP )

Access costs 12 € (possibility of discounted rates for children, students, teenagers, families) or € 29 for a pass valid for one year.

The tour begins on the forum where you can sit comfortably listen to the first general explanations of the stadium.

Continue following the visit of the guys very friendly and patient explaining in detail everything that is encountered during the long Tour Operated as a tour along the interior corridors and external walkways and stairs through the change of level of service ( used only by the Fire Services and Order) to reach the heart of every event organization and control center of the stadium: this room, to which access is through a nondescript door on the walkway outside, it's so secret kept under control which is forbidden to take pictures! Here take place all the heads of law enforcement and from here all the directives that control the stadium.

Soon after we reach the part where you normally earn for the visit, you must have done something ... ugly: the detention cell in the Police Station Stadium! As an environment with lots of tiny claustrophobic cell with glass doors.

Staying in the lower level is still going through the tunnel leading to the entrance and all players' entrance leading to the Authority and the Changing Field of the first game, and the Tribune d'Honneur and the VIP dining rooms.

E 'can then be totally immersed in the French National Team player and detail visit the changing rooms (as prepared for the final World Cup of 1998): showers, massage room, bathrooms, and lockers are in the Uniforms worn by the players of that game (there is also the board with the scheme for the game!).

Passing through the great room Soundproofed attrversando Concentration and the hallway lined with synthetic grass (the players they need not to miss!:-O) you arrive at the Prato egged on by a stadium full registration with the public cheering!

After a short ride on the edge of the field (be careful because if the lawn is at rest is absolutely forbidden to tread on it), also through the many tunnels you can visit the VIP areas (in the meantime we are told that the entire ring moves back to the lower well 15 meters allowing you to discover the athletics track, but losing 11,000 people): their ultra-Bar and Restaurant, private dining rooms overlooking the field fittabili a few thousand at sporting events!

The visit to this point takes about an hour, but may continue in the 4 halls of the museum space in which tells the story of the Stade de France, which displays dozens of relics of all the concerts and events that took place here (one of the most famous concerts: The Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, AC / DC, Paul McCartney, U2, George Michael, The Police, Madonna, Depeche Mode, Muse).