A club where history is made

CNB lets you take up every kind of sport: it stands out not just for its water facilities but also for its sailing, karate and padel-tennis schools, its training rooms and its squash and pelota courts. The club also prepares various teams and individuals for sports competitions, including the Olympic swimming championship.

The CNB also founded the popular Copa Nadal, which involves an annual swimming across 200 metres of open water in Barcelona’s port on Christmas Day, an event that has been held for more than a century!

In the wake of Bernat Picornell

Swimming as a sport was introduced to in Catalonia by the swimmer Bernat Picornell, who dedicated his life to promoting this sport and founded the CNB together with a group of friends. The club has continued to grow ever since: to mark the foundation’s centenary in 2007, the CNB was presented with the St George’s Cross.