The Bernabéu, under construction two months before the first league game

Published:3/07/2022 - 19:17h

Updated:4/07/2022 - 00:54h

Restructuring work continues at the Santiago Bernabéu. Although the retractable turf will not be implemented until 2023, the club is installing the underground trays

In the middle of the 'dead season', the Real Madrid has taken advantage of the free days to restart the works in Santiago Bernabéu, that continues suffering partial remodelings of face to a reinauguración that would take place the next year. At present, the lawn is entirely raised, being attended by an important number of workers.

The idea is to substitute the current lawn by one retractable that will begin to use in the course 2023-24. Even so, the club expects to finish in the weeks to come the placing of the retractable trays situated to subterranean level with the end to win time advancing the works and facilitate the use of this new technology before his set up in little less than a year.

It treats of one of the final phases of the project, that saw seriously affected with the arrival of the pandemia of the coronavirus at the beginning of 2020 and the eventual measures of confinement decreed by the authorities that to his time carried to a paralización of the sportive and enormous activities losses of time and money in the case of this type of works.

Partial opening of the Bernabéu to the tourists

Recently, the tour of the Bernabéu has been reopened after his closure around the middle of April. The closing obeyed to the transfer of the open zone to the public to the zone this of the white enclosure. Of this way, the visitors will be able to have a greater space, that would extend around the 4.250 square metres and will have four plants in which it will be able to appreciate, as main attraction, the fourteenth orejona in the vitrinas of the club.

Nevertheless, other sections find inhabilitadas momentáneamente, like the room of press, the loge, the changing rooms, the tunnel and the route around the lawn. Also it is possible to appreciate the maqueta of how lucirá the once finalised project, other vitrinas of the club in which it is possible to observe other trophies, like Balloons of Gold, titles of the section of basketball or the distinction to the best club of the 20th century awarded by the FIFA in his centenary.