The presentation of the gazetteer of the Barcelona City Council, which met last Thursday, has given the go-ahead to dedicate a square to the Barcelona painter Antoni Tàpies. The space is located in the Sarrià-Sant Gervasi district and now bears the name of Plaza de la Torre.
The panel also voted in favor of adding five more women's names to the streets and squares of Barcelona. All of them refer to women representatives of the memory of neighborhood, political and union activism or also of culture and science.
Next February 6 will mark the eleventh anniversary of the death of Antoni Tàpies, a universal Catalan considered one of the greatest Spanish artists of the 20th century.
The urban space to which Tàpies will give its name has been known since before 1900 as Plaza de la Torre because it leads to the street of the same name, which is reminiscent of a building that was demolished in 1977.
The names of women that are incorporated into the Barcelona street map will correspond to new spaces in the city. Specifically, in the Eixample, the interior of the block of the old Urgel cinema will be called the garden of Cristina Fernández Pereira, a woman shot by the Franco regime in the Camp de la Bota unfairly accused of denouncing a neighbor to the Republican side during the Civil War Spanish.
In Gràcia, the photographer Margaret Michaelis will be honored in the location between Anna Piferrer, Cesare Cantù and Otilia Castellví streets.
In Sant Martí, the space attached to the La Pau school, at the end of the Xavier Llorens passage, will be baptized with the name of Plaza Rosalind Franklin. This square will remember a prominent chemist and crystallographer, one of the key researchers in understanding the molecular structures of DNA.
In Horta-Guinardó, the number of plaza Ònia Farga i Pellicer, pianist and violinist, will be placed in the space adjacent to the Casa Fargas municipal music school.
A location has also been found for the already approved name of Rosa Barba Casanovas -architect doctor, landscape architect and professor in the Urban Planning Department of the School of Architecture of Catalonia (UPF)--, which will give its name to the footbridge that crosses the head of the reservoir from Vallvidrera.
The gazetteer's presentation has also given the green light to the name of the passage for Manuel Cros Grau, a Catalan footballer from the 1920s, on the road located between Camèlias, Sardenya, Providència and Pau Alsina streets, in the Gràcia district. . Cros played for three seasons in CE. Europe when this historic club from Gràcia played in the First Division of football.
In Nou Barris, the open space between numbers 66-68 on Calle Palamós and numbers 41-47 on Calle S'Agaró has been approved to be called Plaza de Cooperativa de Carters. Likewise, in the same district, the space between the streets Aiguablava, Sa Tuna and Palamós will be called the Plaza de la Vida Comunitaria.
In Sant Andreu, the change of the number of Calle Condesa Pardo Bazán to Calle Emilia Pardo Bazán has been approved. In Sant Andreu, a space located next to Calle Arc del Mercat is also named after the Plaza dels Gegants de Sant Andreu de Palomar.
In Sants-Montjuïc, the confluence between Calle Comtes de Bell-lloc, Viriat, Guitard and Puiggarí will become known as Can Climent Square. In the same district, the space between Calle Miracle, Pasaje del Vapor Vell and Galileu will be the Plaza de las Treballadores del Vapor Vell, and the square in front of the Office of Citizens' Attention on Paseo de Zona Franca will be called Plaza del Orgull .
In Sants-Montjuïc, it has also been approved to baptize a garden space at the end of Riera de Tena street, below the track, with the name of Esteve and Josep Fortuny i Guarro square. The brothers, musicians and composers sons of Sants, are two of the founders of the Eléctrica Dharma group.
In the same district, the space located between Gran Via and Amadeu Oller, Corral and Moianès streets has also been named after Josep Pons i Mogas – anti-Franco activist.
Likewise, the report has approved the placement of memorial plaques on the facades of the homes of various personalities: Amàlia Alegre, Dolors Monserdà, George Orwell, Alicia de Larrocha, Pere Caldes, Josep Anselm Clavé, Pepita Pardell, Moncho, Emèrita Arbonès, Ruth von Wild, Carlos Pujol, Gabriel Ferrater, Paco Fernández Buey, and Carme Balcells
