Barcelona's Famous SANTS Skate Spot Demolished, Remodel Underway

Originally posted on TransWorld SKATEboarding
By Blair Alley | Last updated Feb 7, 2025 11:52 AM ET

Heavy news from Barcelona, as the city's most-famous, longest-standing skate spot has been demo'd ahead of a major renovation. What's coming—a new, skateable plaza that can hopefully stand up to the hallowed history there. But for now, our thoughts go out to the Spanish skaters and all the visitors over the decades that got to roll on that smooth ground under the wavy veranda and scratch their trucks on those famous benches.

Mackenzie Eisenhour has a great retrospective of photos and clips that made the train station famous:

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"Sad news from Sants Estacion aka SNTS in BCN reposted from OG @senior_gomez. Seems the iconic train station plaza that skateboarders have enjoyed since at least the 80s is undergoing a full renovation. Perhaps something better will emerge but sending condolences to the SNTS crew and anyone who has made the pilgrimage there as the original structures and those signature double benches under the steel canopies are officially gone. These benches entered my world via @enriquelorenzoo lines and Marcos Gomez part in Rodney vs. Daewon Round 2 (1999 by Deca/@worldindustries). Slide 3 top was @busenitz’s ollie over the bench and stairs from Diagonal (2009 by @adidasskateboarding / @torstenfrank), bottom was Gonz at Santa in 86 shot by @lancemountain. Slide 4 was Rick’s ender from Fully Flared (2007 by @lakailtd / @tyevans). Spot photos all by Marcos. Should probably have a @raul.navarro.bcn clip in here somewhere too. Respects to all the OGs."

As you may remember in our Barcelona city video, Marcos Lozano and the Sants 4 Ever initiative was constantly doing events and preserving the history of the spot, but knew the demo and construction was coming. They've posted an update to IG as well: