Urban Planning, Ecological Transition, Urban Services and Housing

On Tuesday 31 January, we’ll be celebrating the fact that several of Guinardó’s schools now have safer, more spacious and comfortable surroundings! This is the first festival for “We’re protecting Schools”, an initiative launched by Barcelona City Council, which in recent weeks has carried out works to introduce traffic calming measures in the immediate areas around several schools.

Music, workshops for kids, games, a chocolate fest for everyone, and more. The “We’re Protecting Schools” festival in Guinardó is already warming up, and together with the whole of the educational community getting ready to celebrate the traffic calming measures implemented around the ‘educational block’ formed by the following schools:

• Escola Torrent d’en Melis
• Escola Estel Guinardó
• Montserrat Municipal Nursery School
• Déu de Montserrat Special School

Pupils, parents and teachers from these schools plus local residents who fancy joining in will be taking part in the celebration that is to take place on Tuesday 31 January from 4.30 pm in C. Varsòvia, approximately between numbers 160 and 170.

In recent weeks, 73 traffic calming initiatives have been introduced

At the end of last year, “We’re Protecting Schools” began work on 73 traffic calming initiatives all over the city, with the aim of improving access and the spaces in the immediate area around schools, keeping pupils away from traffic and noise, and helping to prevent accidents. Thanks to this project, by the end of 2023 a total of 217 schools will be protected in Barcelona – one third of the city’s schools. You can check to see which schools they are on this map.

“Protegim les escoles” [We’re Protecting Schools] festival in the Guinardó neighbourhood

Where: C. Varsòvia, approximately between numbers 160-170.
When: Tuesday January 31, from 4.30 pm.