Platja dels Patins de Vela, Urban beach in Badalona, Spain.
Platja dels Patins de Vela is an urban beach in Badalona, 120 metres long and 55 metres wide, made of coarse sand. It lies between Platja dels Pescadors, at Carrer del Mar, and Platja de l'Estació, at Avinguda de Martí Pujol. The Club Natació Badalona sailing school occupies the former fishermen's guild building next to the beach.
This beach developed as Badalona transformed from a small fishing village into a modern coastal city within the Barcelona metropolitan region. The change happened over the 20th century as the area became more urban and connected to the wider metropolis.
The beach takes its name from the sailing club CN Badalona, whose sailing school has occupied the former fishermen's guild building since 2012. The adjacent indoor pool, opened in late 1971, was renamed Mireia Belmonte in 2012 after the Badalona-born Olympic swimmer. Each summer since 2022 a fenced 900 m² dog area is set up on the sand.
The beach runs between Carrer del Mar and Avinguda de Martí Pujol, with the Pescadors beach to the north-east and the Estació beach to the south-west. Since 2022 a fenced dog area of about 900 m² is set up here each summer. The municipal indoor pool, named Mireia Belmonte since 2012, stands beside the sand.
The name comes from the Club Natació Badalona, whose sailing section occupies the beach; the club won the concession in 2012 for the former fishermen's guild building facing the sand, which had moved to Badalona port in 2011, and installed its sailing school there.
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