What you can see on the Bernabéu webcams
The first camera, at the Plaza de los Sagrados Corazones, looks across the junction straight at the steel façade, with the forecourt where fans gather. The second, at the Plaza de Lima on the Castellana, sometimes has the stadium filling half the picture and sometimes looks up the avenue instead, as the traffic centre turns it. They are traffic cameras, so they show the outside of the ground rather than the pitch: the crowds before a match or a concert, the police and the buses, and the light on the steel.
Bernabéu webcam: the stadium from Sagrados Corazones
This city council camera stands at the Plaza de los Sagrados Corazones, beside the stadium, and looks across the junction straight at the Santiago Bernabéu. The curved, ribbed steel façade of the rebuilt stadium fills the top right of the picture; below it are the pavements and the forecourt where fans gather, and in the foreground the crossroads with its traffic lights and zebra crossings.
On match days this is the view to watch: from a couple of hours before kick-off the street fills with fans, the police set up their vans and barriers and the traffic is held back. On other days it shows the comings and goings of stadium tours and the light on the steel. The image is a still renewed every few minutes, stamped with the date and time.
Bernabéu webcam: the stadium from Plaza de Lima
This city council traffic camera at the Plaza de Lima turns between two views, and what you see depends on where it is pointing at the time.
Turned towards the stadium, it looks along the Paseo de la Castellana with the Santiago Bernabéu filling the right half of the picture: the curved, ribbed steel skin rising above the trees and the hoardings around its base, with tall office and apartment blocks lining the avenue on the left and buses and taxis queuing at the lights.
Turned the other way, it looks across the junction and down the Castellana itself, between brick apartment blocks and the trees of the central reservation, with the stadium out of shot; on match days you can still see the crowds and the police barriers along the pavement on the left. For a guaranteed view of the stadium, the camera at Sagrados Corazones is the one to watch.
The stadium
The stadium opened in 1947 and took the name of Santiago Bernabéu, the club president who had it built, in 1955. It has hosted European Cup and Champions League finals and the final of the 1982 World Cup. Between 2019 and 2024 it was rebuilt with a retractable roof, a pitch that can be stored beneath the stands and the new steel skin, so that it now hosts big concerts as well as football. The stadium tour and museum are open most days, except around matches.
When to watch the Bernabéu
Madrid is one hour ahead of the UK and Ireland. Matches are usually in the evening, and the area fills up from a couple of hours before kick-off. On quiet days the camera is simply a view of the Castellana, one of the city's main avenues, at its busiest in the morning and evening rush hours.
Getting to the Bernabéu
The Santiago Bernabéu metro station, on line 10, is right beside the stadium, a few stops north of the centre. From the Puerta del Sol it is about 3 miles (5 km), and Madrid-Barajas airport is about 15 to 20 minutes away by car outside the rush hour.
