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La Masia de Can Planes was an old Catalan farmhouse, built in 1702. In 1979, it was first used by the club to house its young footballers who originated from outside Barcelona. [ 3 ] The idea for the youth academy was proposed to Josep Lluís Núñez by Jaume Amat Murtra [ 4 ] and Oriol Tort was put in charge of the facility.
A procession of several thousands of people made the journey from the Camp de Les Corts to La Masia de Can Planes, where the ceremony of laying the first stone was held, a solemn ceremony in the presence of Miró-Sans, the head of the Civil Government of Barcelona and the archbishop of Barcelona, Gregorio Modrego. [20]
The FC Barcelona youth academy is called La Masia, so named because it was formerly located in an authentic 18th-century masia called the 'Masia de Can Planes'.The masia is located adjacent to the Camp Nou in the Les Corts district of Barcelona, and was used to house young footballers from 1979 to 2011.
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The Farm is an oil painting made by Joan Miró between the summer of 1921 in Mont-roig del Camp and winter 1922 in Paris. [1] It is a kind of inventory of the masia (traditional Catalan farmhouse) owned by his family since 1911 in the town of Mont-roig del Camp.
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