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MACBA
The plaza in front of the contemporary art museum. Smooth ledges and a flat ground. Cradle of European street skating.
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History of this spot
Since 1996
NOV 28, 1995
Cradle of European street skating from the late 1990s. The Plaça dels Àngels in front of Richard Meier's contemporary art museum became a global destination almost as soon as the museum opened.
Background. The Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona was designed by Richard Meier & Partners. Construction began in 1987 in the Plaça dels Àngels in the El Raval neighbourhood of Ciutat Vella, an area then undergoing significant urban regeneration. The museum opened to the public on 28 November 1995. Skaters identified the smooth white plaza, the long marble ledges, the flat ground, and the gentle banks immediately. Within five years MACBA had become the most consequential street-skating spot in Europe and one of the most filmed plazas anywhere in the world. The Barcelona scene built around MACBA — Paral·lel, Sants, Forum, Universitat — defined a generation of European video parts and produced a generation of professional skaters. The museum has tolerated skating with varying degrees of patience. Through the 2000s and 2010s the city, museum management, and skaters reached a workable détente: skating is not officially permitted but is generally not actively prevented. MACBA remains continuously active as a skate spot at the time of writing.