Sociocultural activist, anti-Francoist and feminist, Palmira Domènech Ayats was one of the first social educators in Catalonia. During the latter years of the Franco regime, she became actively involved in opposing the dictatorship, to the point of being in charge of the PSUC’s (Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia) propaganda apparatus between 1963 and 1970. Later, she was noted for her activism in El Prat de Llobregat, where, from 1969 to 1977, she was a social worker at the Centro de esparcimiento de la Cooperativa Obrera de Viviendas, “La Cope”. In the final years of her life, she was still active on a social level as a member of the League for Secularism, the Catalunya-Lebanon association, and the “iaioflautas”of Barcelona. In 2019, the Palmira Domènech Civic Centre, known as “La Palmira”, was opened near the El Prat metro station.
She was one of the first social educators in Catalonia, as well as an anti-Franco activist and member of the League for Secularism, the Catalonia-Lebanon Association, and the senior citizen group Iaioflautes.