Municipal government restructured and a new Deputy Mayor’s Office created
City Council. The amendment to the organisational structure is intended to give a new impetus to social policies and economic promotion halfway through the current term of office.
Barcelona City Council leaves the social network X
City Council. All municipal accounts on X have been deactivated, with the exception of @bcn_ajuntament.
Cleaning strike called off for the Christmas holidays
Cleaning. Regular cleaning services will continue in the city following an agreement between the unions and the cleaning companies.
A total of 1,322 refugees, the subterranean city for surviving aerial bombings
Books. Presentation of the book on Tuesday, 6 June, at 6.30 pm, at the La Model’s function room (Entença, 155).
International Archives Week returns
Culture and free time. The Municipal Archive of Barcelona is offering an array of free activities from 5 to 11 June.
Visit our stand on Passeig de Gràcia, between C. Corsica and C. Rosselló.
Fairs. Once again this year, Barcelona City Council is setting up a Sant Jordi stand to showcase new publications, offering them for sale with a 10% discount.
‘La Barcelona que mai va ser’ [The Barcelona that Never Was]
Books. The book tells the story of the five years of struggle, and the projects that would have transformed the city had war not broken out.
Barcelona unveils the plaque in Rosalind Franklin's square
Women and science. The public space recognises the work of the London chemist and crystallographer, who played a key role in the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA and in the advancement of science.
Barcelona dedicates gardens to the ecologist Ramon Margalef
Montjuïc. From now on, the Jardí d'Aclimatació, one of the city’s most interesting botanical sites, located in Parc de Montjuïc, is to be named after the ecologist Ramon Margalef i López (1919-2004).
We present the second ‘Barcelona, Memòria en Vinyetes’ comic: Rebel·lió: La vaga de lloguers del 1931
Books. Its authors are Francisco Sánchez and Ana Sainz «Anapurna» and the publication will be presented on Monday, 20 March, at the Biblioteca Francesc Candel.
A museum dedicated to the history of housing in 20th-century Barcelona
Exhibitions. The MUHBA Bon Pastor opens its doors, a museum of one of the cheap houses in this working-class neighbourhood.
The MUHBA turns 80 with a revamp
The Museu d’Història de Barcelona will be inaugurating up to eight revamped or expanded sites in the coming months.
The book series "Barcelona, Memory in Comic Drawings" makes its debut with a comic about La Model
Books. The main aim of the series is to explain the most important protest movements through comics.
A plan to regain the route and historical memory of the Rec Comtal
Urban planning and infrastructures. The water channel supplied the city for a thousand years.
‘Barcelona, gener de 1939. La caiguda’ [Barcelona, January 1939. The Fall]
Books. An exhaustive and richly documented study that includes photographs and unpublished documents form the time of Franco's occupation of Barcelona.
The Llibre de les fonts brings back a 17th-century manuscript kept at the Historic Archives
Books. The Book of Fountains. Water, climate and society in 17th-century Barcelona. A book published jointly with Editorial Afers that brings back and analyses a manuscript commissioned by the Consell de Cent.
Square in El Putxet i el Farró to be named after Antoni Tàpies
Urban planning. The changes in the street name index also include more women’s names for streets and squares in the city.
New permanent exhibition at La Model to explain its future transformation
La Model. La Model houses a new permanent exhibition with details on how the site is to be transformed into a hub for facilities, housing and a large city park while maintaining its heritage and historical memory.
‘Barxiluna: a (forgotten) Muslim past and present’ is coming this October
Islam. Start of activities with the ‘History and Heritage’ round table and debate on 13 October at 5.30 pm.
La Model to become a hub for facilities and a large green space
Urban planning. The first projects to be implement will be an all-through school, a multi-purpose sports hall, the energy supply system and the memorial space.
More city streets and squares named after women
Street names. The Barcelona Street Naming Commission today approved the introduction of five women’s names for streets and squares.
Three schools join the Stolpersteine project to remember those deported by the Nazis
Democratic memory. The nine memorial cobblestones will be laid in front of the homes of each person they pay homage to.
Protecting the city’s historical, environmental and popular heritage
The plan is set out in the government measure “Barcelona, Heritage City”, which is to be presented before the Full Council in its meeting of 29 April.
More city streets to be named after women
Street names. The changes in the street name index also seek to regain popular names used by local people in the city’s neighbourhoods.
Barceloneta’s seafront to bear the name of Oriol Bohigas
Oriol Bohigas. The architect was a leading figure in urban planning in the city and the process to open it up to the sea, as well as the way Barcelona was presented to the world during the Olympic Games in 1992.
Oriol Bohigas to have a square or street named after him in Barcelona
Urban planning. The announcement was made during the act of homage for the architect, who would have been 96.