17 de December de 2022

Redacció

Urban planning. The changes in the street name index also include more women’s names for streets and squares in the city.

The feminisation of the city’s street names continues, with the introduction of more women’s names for streets and squares, while there’s also a tribute to Antoni Tàpies. The Barcelona painter’s name will be used for the current Plaça de la Torre in the neighbourhood of El Putxet i el Farró.

Names for new spaces in the city

L’Eixample

• Jardí de Cristina Fernández Pereira, in the inner quadrangle where the former Cinema Urgell stood in L’Eixample. Cristina Fernández Pereira was shot by firing squad at Camp de la Bota by the fascist regime, unjustly accused of denouncing a neighbour to the republican side.

Sant Martí

• Space in honour of the chemist Rosalind Franklin, at the annexe space to the Escola La Pau, at the end of Passatge de Xavier Llorens, in Sant Martí. Franklin was a key researcher in understanding the molecular structure of DNA.

Sarrià – Sant Gervasi

• Walkway at the pond in Vallvidrera in honour of the architect Rosa Barba i Casanovas.

Gràcia

• Square in honour of the photographer Margaret Michaelis, at the point between the streets of Anna Piferrer, Cesare Cantù and Otília Castellví.
• Passatge de Manuel Cros Grau, a footballer from the 1920s, at the small lane between the streets of Camèlies, Sardenya, Providència and Pau Alsina.

Nou Barris

• Square in memory of the violinist and pianist Ònia Farga i Pellicer, at the point next to the Escola Municipal de Música Can Fargas.
• Plaça de la Cooperativa de Carters, at the open space between number 66 and 68 in Carrer de Palamós and numbers 41 and 47 in Carrer de S’Agaró.
• Plaça del Centre de la Vida Comunitària, in the space between the streets of Aiguablava, Sa Tuna and Palamós.

Sant Andreu

• Placeta dels Gegants de Sant Andreu de Palomar, in the space right next to Carrer de l’Arc del Mercat.
• Change of street name for Carrer de la Comtessa de Pardo Bazán, which becomes Carrer d’Emilia Pardo Bazán.

Sants-Montjuïc

• Plaça de Can Climent, at the point where the streets of Comtes de Bell-lloc, Viriat, Guitard and Puiggarí converge.
• Plaça de les Treballadores del Vapor Vell, at the space between Carrer del Miracle, Passatge del Vapor Vell and Carrer de Galileu.
• Plaça de l’Orgull, in the square in front of the Citizen Help and Information Office in Passeig de la Zona Franca.
• Plaça d’Esteve i Josep Fortuny i Guarro, in honour of two of the musicians who founded the Companyia Elèctrica Dharma.
• Square in memory of the anti-francoist activist Josep Pons i Mogas, in the space between Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes and the streets of Amadeu Oller, Corral and Moianès.

Eighteen memorial plaques will also be installed on the façades of homes where various people of note lived and on buildings where outstanding city organisations were based.

Street Naming Committee

The Street Naming Committee is the body at Barcelona City Council tasked with naming streets, squares, gardens and all public space in the city. A favourable report from the committee is an essential step in the process to name a public space promoted by the community or any other body.