A July full of nautical activities
Barcelona’s seafront becomes a major sporting and civic stage during the month of July, with international regattas, grassroots competitions, inclusive sailing and initiatives open to the public. This intense agenda is jointly promoted by the Barcelona Nautical Capital Foundation with the Barcelona Sports Institute of the Barcelona City Council, the Port of Barcelona, the Olympic […]
Mindful training for a healthier life
New programs that combine exercise, health, and personalized attention, tailored to different fitness levels, ages, and goals. In today’s fast-paced world, taking care of your health is no longer a luxury—it’s a necessity. At CNAB, we want to help our members feel better, move better, and live with more energy through activities designed not only […]
King’s Cup Champion
Zodiac Atlètic Barceloneta was crowned champion of the 40th edition of the Copa del Rey in Terrassa for the 22nd time in its history and the 14th consecutive time, defeating Club Natació Sabadell 11–5 in the final. Season after season, Barceloneta solidifies its position as the most dominant force in Spanish water polo. This is […]
RC Sailing Barcelona 2026
A Bridge of Talent to the Blue Economy: How RC Sailing Barcelona 2026 Sets Sail A university challenge that unites the sea and ingenuity: designing and building radio-controlled sailboats to nurture talent towards the Blue Economy. In Barceloneta, the sea is more than just a horizon: it’s a profession, a culture, and a way of […]
Blau de Fons: when the sea becomes a conversation
Barcelona is a city that lives facing the sea, but we often lack the space to talk about it . Not just the sea we see next to our homes—the beaches, the port, or the blue horizon—but the sea that thinks, experiences, investigates, educates, and transforms. The sea that doesn’t appear on postcards but sustains […]
Spain, Water Polo World Champions
CNAB plays a leading role in historic success The Spanish men’s team has been crowned World Champions at the World Championships in Singapore, in an exciting, intense, and highly competitive tournament. This historic milestone marks a turning point for Spanish water polo. The CN Atlético-Barceloneta is immensely proud of this triumph, as nine of the […]
Felipe Perrone
A waterpolo legend bids farewell “Now I’m asking to be substituted for the first time.” With these words, amid smiles and tears, Felipe Perrone brought an extraordinary sporting career to an end. A farewell that not only closes one chapter, but also culminates a life dedicated to water and to a club that has been […]
Blue School League
Bringing sailing to primary school students The Blue School League is now underway after the delivery of boats and exhibition regatta held last June in the waters of the BISC (Barcelona International Sailing Center), as part of a fun family day. Around 80 children aged between 8 and 12 from 18 sailing clubs along the […]
22 Days on a 22-footer, a solo adventure in the Atlantic
The educational program «22 Days on a 22-footer, a solo adventure in the Atlantic», promoted by the Barcelona Capital Nàutica Foundation and the Barcelona Maritime Museum, is now open for registration ahead of its 3rd edition . This initiative aims to continue bringing maritime culture and the spirit of transoceanic sailing to primary and secondary […]
Bronze in Europe
The Atlético-Barceloneta Swimming Club extends its list of achievements by obtaining a new medal in the final of the European Champions League. Having won all the domestic titles up for grabs—the Super Cup, the Copa del Rey, and La Liga—they were one of the clear favorites for the continental final. Friday’s semi-final against Serbian Novi Beograd was […]
Football in La Barceloneta
In terms of sport, Barceloneta has always been associated with water sports and, let’s say, «pool» sports: swimming and water polo. But curiously, very close to the sea, a notable and interesting football tradition has developed since the beginning of the 20th century. Pioneering clubs, especially, though not exclusively, the now-centennial FC Barceloneta (1918). Legendary […]
Salty Words
When the sea meets literature A new cultural space for all those who love literature and the sea has been born in Barcelona. With the evocative name of Salty Words. This series of lectures aims to create a profound and enriching dialogue between literature and the maritime world. Organized by the Barcelona Capital Náutica Foundation, […]
Kings in and out of the water
February 14 to 16 , was The venue for one of the most important water polo events in Spain. After 12 years, it hosted a major national competition at its facilities: the 39th Men’s Water Polo King’s Cup. The host club started as favorites and didn’t disappoint. They comfortably won all three matches. They beat […]
Barcelona, the capital of sailing
A commitment to the future of the territory Barcelona, a city that has always looked to the sea, has established itself as the nautical capital. Its privileged connection with the Mediterranean, first-class infrastructures and a history linked to maritime development have made this city a focal point for sport, innovation and sustainable growth in the […]
The Marítim reinvents itself
More space, innovation and strength for a unique fitness experience The Claror Group has presented this season the renovated Marítim by Claror, a club that is committed to innovation and the latest trends in the world of fitness. The former Claror Marítim has been renovated and modernised with the aim of offering its users a […]
CNAB more supportive
The Club Natació Atlàtic-Barceloneta is a non-profit organisation, of public utility and socially responsible. Thanks to its spirit of solidarity and collaboration, they work and promote projects that contribute to the general welfare. Above all, it is a Club committed to people and organisations that work to build a fairer society and to defend the […]
Get in shape. Complete renovation of the fitness room
Club Natació Atlètic-Barceloneta’s priority is to serve its members. And this will is materialised by offering updated and renovated facilities so that they can enjoy sport and health to the maximum. For this reason, the Club’s latest major commitment has been to fitness In November 2023, they announced the total renovation of the fitness room […]
Sailing is also for everyone
Being in contact with the sea has multiple benefits for people’s wellbeing and sailing even more so. This is the aim of the ‘Sailing for everyone’ programme led by the Catalan Sailing Federation and the Mi Alex Foundation with the support of the Barcelona Nautical Capital Foundation and in which the organisation of the America’s […]
Poloboya. If you float, come and we will have a laugh
The slogan says it all. The Poloboya joins two passions, the water polo and the sea, salads with maximum doses of fun and fellowship. It is a sport with new (very few) rules, played around the buoy on the beach. The only way to score is by paddling and it is necessary to go out […]
Sport as a pedagogical and transformative tool
The Association Sports Ciutat Vella ( AECV) is a non-profit entity created in 1986 with a clear concept of sport as a pedagogical and transformative tool. Its objective is to energize all types of projects for children and young people from the Ciutat Vella district, among which we highlight the following kits : the IEM […]
Handball in Barceloneta
On a sporting level, Barceloneta is a neighborhood world-renowned for water polo, but in addition to “polo” and soccer (which we will talk about in the future reports) there was a time in which it stood out at a very high level in handball. In this report we want to recall this time. We go […]
The women’s Handball
Women’s handball team in Barceloneta began in the mid 70’s competing until after the Barcelona Olympics , by categories youth and seniors . First by the name of Center of Sports and then A.E. Ciutat Vella. The team achieved a highly competitive level. Even around 1980, La Caixa decided to create a girls ‘ team […]
CNAB. Olympic Club
In the world of sports, this is a very special year, since it is an Olympic year. And, from July 26 to August 11, we will be able to experience the best sport at Paris ’24. In the Barceloneta neighborhood we have an Olympic Club, which bears the name of our neighborhood throughout the world: […]
Discover ZONA, your sports medicine center in the heart of our neighborhood!
ZONA, health and beauty center, is located in the facilities of the Club Natació Atlètic-Barceloneta and is open to all those who want to take care of themselves, both inside and out. The center opened 5 years ago by the hand of one of the most emblematic water polo players of the CNAB, the Olympian […]
Enjoy the new Pilates Reformer studio at Claror Marítimo beachfront
The only Pilates Reformer studio in the maritime area between Barceloneta and Villa Olímpica. Fitness and health lovers in the neighborhood are in luck with the opening of the new Pilates Reformer studio at Claror Marítimo, located in the maritime area of Barceloneta and Villa Olímpica, at the foot of Somorrostro beach. This innovative studio invites everyone […]
CNAB’s first swim of the year celebrates Silver Jubilee
The Christmas holidays are approaching and there are many things to do. We have to fill the fridge, send greetings full of good wishes, buy presents, buy the cotillion, make the list of new resolutions… and prepare the swimming costume. And you can’t miss the must-attend event every January 1st: the First Swim of the Year, organised […]
Crossing the Port of Barcelona. 95th edition!
For example, the first edition of the Vuelta Ciclista in Spain dates back to 1935, the first tennis Conde de Godó was played in 1953 and the first Joan Gamper Trophy in 1966, and at another level, the first World Cup was played in Uruguay in 1930. Is that clear? The beginnings. Every year, the […]
Bronze in the Champions League. Bacallà, sec, sec!
Once again, the Mariner Club has done it. A few days ago, the club managed to make podium in the most important Water polo club competition in the world, the Champions League in Belgrade. The bronze medal tasted like gold due to the fantastic trajectory of the team this season. They have won all the […]
Passion for surfing Helena Ribas, espai de Mar
Helena defines herself as a girl of the sea. And when you are born in Barceloneta and learn to walk practically on the sand of the beach, it is easy to get hooked on the saltpetre and, in her case, to become passionate about surfing. I fell in love with surfing. It was a crush. […]
That little boy on the first board Jordi Forner, «El Bolas»
When we didn’t know what surfing was in Barceloneta, a brat of just 8 years old attracted attention by holding his balance on a board on the waves. It was Jordi Forner, «El Bolas», and it was 1986. The board was made for me by my father in his workshop. He had been in Long […]
It is not California, it is la Barceloneta
The European city that sells more neoprene per year is called Barcelona. They don’t practice it, they live it. Because, as they say, surfing is more than a sport, it is a way of life, an art that is expressed by riding a board on the waves. The feeling of catching one and feeling the […]
Juanillo y Jandro. Vinagre y Acuario
It was impossible to mention the hundreds of boys who played during all these years. But one of the people who could best represent all of them is Juan Paredes Giner, affectionately known as Juanillo «el calvo». Juan has lived through all the stages of Repla futsal. He was one of the first boys who […]
The teams
As in all leagues, ours had its favorites. Teams like Vinagre, Aquarius, Sport80 A, AllStars or Wandismei, were classics but far from being the only ones. There were those who gave name to a «Coro»: Pescadors or the aforementioned Vinagre. The companies ones: Talleres Pons, Vídeoclub Atlántida, Encuadernaciones Martín or Zanussi, the once that took […]
Indoor football
The pitch was the courtyard of the Virgo de la Mar School and the place where spontaneously several games were played at the same time in the afternoons after school and on weekends. About 1976 a group of boys that coincided at the farm of Mr. Jose «el juegan» played the first matches organized by […]
La Repla
All neighbourhoods have some emblematic enclaves where the history of this community and many of its inhabitants has developed. But on too many occasions there comes a day when this place disappears physically to remain alive only in our memory. One such place is La Repla, our own Rellena. Demolished in the summer of 1998. […]
Carrying the name of the neighbourhood around the world
The Club Natació Atlàtic-Barceloneta, the sports club par excellence of the neighbourhood and the leader of the municipal sports facilities, has recently renewed its board of directors. And Julian Garcia remains at the head as president after 25 years. A Club that carries the name of the neighbourhood around the world with its first water […]
From Water Ballet to Synchronized Swimming
Aquatic Ballet was born at the end of the 19th century in England. The great repercussion caused in 1907 by an exhibition held by the Australian swimmer Annette Kellerman in New York made it popular in more modernized countries at that time, such as the United States, Australia and England itself. In 1926 the first […]
Ta-ka-tá, Barcelona’s only indigenous sport
Barceloneta beach was once again witness to a unique birth: the Ta-ka-ta. A sport that was invented in 1915 by a group of swimmers from the Club Natació Atlètic to keep fit in the winter months when the sea water and the swimming pool, at that time uncovered and of course not heated, were not […]
1 neighborhood, 3 clubs
Club Natació Barcelona (CNB) Bernat Picornell, alongside with a group of sixteen friends were the first people to set up the pioneer club on the 10thof November 1907: Club Natació Barcelona (CNB). Thanks to their efforts, the first water polo tournaments and championships began to be organised, and interest in this new sport progressively increased […]
Barceloneta, the birthplace of water polo
Barceloneta beach has witnessed some truly historic events. Among others, the birth of water polo at the national level. The first water polo match ever played in Spain happened on July 12, 1908, and the referee of the game was Bernat Picornell. It took place in the sea, in front of the current swimming clubs […]