Anti-Franco activist. At the age of 22, Neus Bouzá Gil was condemned to death and executed by firing squad on 26 May 1939 in Camp de la Bota, along with 11 other women in the Les Corts women’s prison.
She lived in Poblenou and worked in the textile factory in C. Ali-Bei. A CNT militant, she was involved in the struggle for civil liberties and the rights of the working class. During the Civil War, she was a member of the rearguard workers’ militias stationed at the Castle of the Four Towers in the Camp de la Bota neighbourhood. After the war, she was arrested and accused of having been involved in the execution of right wing individuals, which she categorically denied.
The Selva de Mar stop is near the Castle of the Four Towers, where Bouzá was a member of the militia. In front of the Fòrum building stands a memorial in remembrance of those who faced the firing squad in Camp de la Bota.
At the age of 22, she was sentenced to death and shot on 26 May 1939, one of the 12 women in the Les Corts Women’s Prison executed in Camp de la Bota. An anti-Franco activist, she had been a member of the workers’ and CNT militias.