Be a tourist With its mixture of ancient buildings and new architecture, the Gothic District so called because it used to be the Roman Village is a must-see. It's a winding maze of narrow streets, quiet squares, boutique shops and hidden alleyways that comes alive at night, with plenty of places to find a bite to eat or throw some shapes on the dance floor.
The Metro is great, but when a city is this rich in culture and atmosphere, you want to be staying above ground at all times.
If you're not skating, rent a bike. Check out bornbikebarcelona. Under unceasing construction since , this massive church will blow your mind with its melting, wax-candle exterior and intricate interior.
Here you'll find a fully functional mini ramp and a history of skateboards that spans decades. If you want some local knowledge, ask at the hostel for Duda Castro. He knows Barca like the back of his hand and can even hook you up with a skate map of the best spots. Everything can be found on these streets, and doing the tapas or pintxos trail here is practically a national pastime. Tapas are small plates of food, while pintxos pronounced "pinchos" are tasty snacks affixed to a small piece of bread with a cocktail stick.
They are found in pretty much every tavern or bar and cost only a few Euros, which means you can eat your way across town. La Plata is a small local spot that serves up three dishes: deep-fried whitebait, tomato salad and Catalan sausage on bread.
So simple, so amazing. The foot structure was built in and offers ledges as well as wave-like transitions on the beach in Barceloneta. Barcelona no longer holds the undisputed world No. As tends to happen with skateboard meccas, not only does the sport's core community catch on -- the authorities do, too.
A series of laws proposed in , and ultimately passed, made it tougher to skate in Barcelona. They also banned a wide range of other activities, including playing music in the street.
Hundreds of local skateboarders distributed flyers warning that "The Skate is going to end" and fought the proposed ordinances with peaceful protests through rush-hour traffic, to no avail. Stricter policies have driven away some of the crowds -- it's technically illegal to skate at MACBA any day other than Tuesday or Sunday -- sending a ripple effect into rising European cities like Berlin and Lisbon, Portugal. On skateboarding's global stage, Barcelona has been supplanted by Guangzhou, China, as the hottest destination to film and photograph Brenes, for instance, took eight trips to Guangzhou last year.
Adds skateboard filmmaker Ty Evans: "That's happening everywhere in the world, not just Barcelona. But I think that's one of the best things about skateboarders: They're great at adapting to their surroundings, and whenever there's any sort of roadblock by people trying to stop you from skateboarding, skateboarders always figure out a way around that.
History continues to be scripted on the plazas and ledges of Barcelona. Evans, who works with leading action-sports production company Brain Farm and has made more than 20 skateboard films -- often spending three to five years on each one -- ticks off moment after sport-altering moment that took place in Barcelona.
Among the standouts: "Alex Olson ollieing the huge street gap at MACBA that's been there forever but no one had ever ollied it [summer of ]" and "Eric [Koston's] backside bigspin at the Wave spot in ," which was featured in "Yeah Right.
The list of famous skateboarders who have plied their trade in Barcelona -- from Danny Way to Jesus Fernandez to Paul Rodriguez to Nyjah Huston -- could well include every pro from the past 15 years.
Yet despite the city's renown, Lorenzo, the de facto patriarch and probably the person most responsible for exposing it to the world, is still as open as he was when the first outsiders showed up. Grinding his way up through the Select Series. One ticket is good for the entire day: All four Prelim Heats and the Finals.
In addition to individual tickets, choose from:. By signing up you agree to our Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy. Garrett unlocks a fresh rail, a loading dock gets jumped, some chillers run a tra Who gets to come to X Games all the time? That's what I think of, and that's what makes me laugh. X Games Foz gold medalist Pedro Barros is nursing a foot injury, but he's still primed to try for a three-peat in Skateboard Park on Sunday.
He traveled to Barcelona and will attempt a six-peat at X Games. A resident of Camp Woodward in central Pennsylvania, Larrin rides with Jamie Bestwick and has a deep bag of difficult vert variations. In Skateboard Vert finals on the opening night of X Games Barcelona, Mitchie Brusco won best trick with a and earned a bronze medal. At 16, Brusco, the youngest athlete in the field, became the youngest in X Games history to earn a Skate Vert medal.
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