The Anella Olímpica’s main venue is preparing for a month of landmark events: Bruce Springsteen will become the most played artist at the stadium, while Estopa will be the first national group to sell out the venue
The Anella Olímpica will step up its campaign to encourage concert-goers to use sustainable transport to get to the stadium
June will see the start of the concert season at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys. Germany’s Rammstein will be the first to bring their music back to the Montjuïc macro-venue with tomorrow’s concert. Next up is Bruce Springsteen, with two shows on 20 and 22 June, followed by Estopa on 10 July as part of their 25th anniversary tour. That’s four concerts in all, which together are expected to attract more than 200,000 people to the stadium.
This year’s concert season at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys includes events that will go down in the history of the venue. Bruce Springsteen’s two concerts will make him the most played artist of all time at the Olympic stadium, with a total of eight appearances. For their part, Estopa will be the first national artists to fill the venue.
This year’s programme at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys also confirms the venue’s contribution to making Barcelona a leading city for major international tours. According to Pollstar, four of the top five tours in terms of revenue will have concerts at the stadium between 2023 and 2024 (Bruce Springsteen, Beyoncé, Coldplay and Harry Styles).
The stadium’s music programme also has a positive impact on the city’s economy, attracting visitors from all over the world. Currently, 12% of the stadium’s audience is international, while 36% comes from other parts of Spain.
Promoting sustainable mobility to the Estadi Olímpic
With the start of the stadium’s concert season, the Anella Olímpica is stepping up its efforts to promote sustainable mobility to the venue and make further progress in hosting sustainable events.
The campaign ‘The Estadi Olímpic is very close. Choose the most sustainable way to get there’ promotes the use of public transport and walking, recommending the use of bus stops, metro stops, the funicular railway and the FGC stops closest to Parc de Montjuïc. The campaign also draws attention to the increased frequency of the 150 bus service between Plaça d’Espanya and Castell de Montjuïc, as well as the special TMB bus service from the stadium to Plaça d’Espanya on concert days. The escalators in Parc de Montjuïc will also be extended on concert days.
Thanks to these measures, the use of private cars to get to the stadium has been reduced in recent years, helping to improve mobility and reduce emissions.
A multi-purpose space
With the arrival of these music tours, the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys will have a very busy first half of 2024. In the first six months of the year, the stadium hosted 10 major sporting events and three iterations of the ‘Vine a l’Estadi’ programme, an initiative inviting people to visit the stadium free of charge and discover its history. More than 800 people took part in these visits.
In addition to maintaining its position as a leading international cultural and sports venue, this year the stadium also launched The Venue Barcelona, a new business ecosystem for companies in the sports, culture and major events sectors, helping to position the Anella Olímpica as an innovation hub for these sectors.
