Spain

Actually, Valencia should already had been playing in a brand new stadium for years, but that ended up being the biggest fiasco ever. We don't mind: Mestalla is one of thé classic football temples of Europe and Valencia is a lovely city to spend a couple of days.

One of the best things of a weekend in Valencia is that you're assured of football. Next to the traditionally bigger Valencia CF, the city is also the home of modest Levante, the small club who reaches great heights from time to time.

In Vila-real, a sleepy town a little north from Valencia, it's usually quiet on the street, but once every two weeks it's a party: when Villarreal plays at home, you can hear the fans in the stadium sing all over the town.

Even just the name Real Madrid tends to shock and awe, the name of the biggest club of the world. A home game of Los Merengues is like a high mass in one of the most beautiful football temples there is, the Estadio Santiago Bernabéu.

That they had to leave their beloved Estadio Vicente Calderón, still hurts a little with the supporters of Atlético Madrid. But this illustrious club is so deeply rooted in the Spanish capital, that there's still lots of football hotspots to discover.

In the cosmopolitan Madrid wereldstad Madrid, time seems to fly and people are always in a rush. Except in the working-class district Vallecas, a leftist stronghold a little south-east from the city center. It's where Rayo Vallecano comes from, a club where the voice of the fans matters, and time seems to stand still for ages.

Getafe isn't considered the most sympathetic club of Spain, but for anyone who likes to go a little bit off the beaten track: the Coliseum Alfonso Pérez can be intimidating sometimes. It's quite a cool stadium, and easy to combine with Rayo, Real, Atlético or neighbour Leganés.

It's probably the most cliché, but also the most classic football trip there is: a visit to Camp Nou and FC Barcelona. It still has got a touch of magic, especially when you wander off the beaten track in the Catalan capital.

Sevilla is not just literally one of the warmest cities of Spain, when there's a game of football, figuratively the temperature can rise pretty much as well. A sometimes underestimated football city, with one of Spain's most beautiful football derbies. Sevilla plays in the Nervión area of the city, in the wonderful Estadio Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán.