Immersive Tour of Messi's Life

Experience a unique journey through the city where the best player in the world was born and raised. This tour invites you to discover the places that shaped Lionel Messi’s childhood and first steps, exploring Rosario from an intimate, football-driven, and deeply emotional perspective.

The experience begins at the Monumento a la Bandera, one of the city’s most important landmarks. From there, together with your local guide, you will start a journey through the corners that built Messi’s story and identity.

The first stop will be the Sports Museum, where you can learn more about the province’s sporting history and Messi’s place as its greatest global icon.

You will then continue to the working-class neighborhood of La Bajada, where Messi grew up surrounded by family, friends, and street football dreams. You will walk its streets and hear the stories that still remember “the kid from the neighborhood” before becoming a global legend.

The tour continues at the iconic Abanderado Grandoli Club, where he began playing football at the age of five, taking his first touches on a pitch that still breathes passion and community.

Finally, the experience culminates at Newell’s Old Boys, the club where Messi trained in its youth divisions starting in 1995 and where the talent that would conquer the world began to take shape. The tour ends here, closing an unforgettable journey through his origins.

Throughout the tour, your guide will accompany you sharing anecdotes, memories, and the context of the Rosario that saw the world champion born, connecting each place with Leo’s story and his eternal bond with the city.