The Girona City Council, governed by Guanyem Girona, Junts and ERC, will change the monarchical name of Torre Alfons XII, an ancient fortification located on the mountain of the Pedreres, to Torre de la Ciutat. The new denomination will be approved in the plenum next Monday and will be official from Tuesday.
The City Council, through a press release, explained today that the city will thus recover the historical name of this ancient defensive element present, with several structures, in the city since 1675.
According to a report by the official chronicler of the city, Joan Boadas, who has consulted various documentary and bibliographic sources, this space has historically received the name Reducte de la Ciutat. "It is for this reason that it is now decided to recover this name and it will be called Torre de la Ciutat," states the City Council in a press release.
The name of the Torre Alfons
The Consistory indicates that it is unknown when the space was named Torre de Alfonso
It is known that the current building was completed in 1874, a date that marked the end of the First Republic and the beginning of the period known as the Bourbon Restoration (December 29, 1874) with the reign of Alfonso XII.
The Pedres de Girona website explains that the name of the tower, completed at the beginning of the reign of Alfonso XII, was in honor of the proclamation of the Bourbon as king of Spain.
The use of the tower for military purposes has been practically non-existent. As a result of its position and the demands of the population that settled in its surroundings, on June 28, 1928, the State authorized the installation of a water tank.
In 1953, the Spanish government transferred the land and the tower to the city, which became municipal property.
Next Monday's plenary session will also approve the nomenclature of seven spaces in the city, of which four will have a female name.
This is the triangular space in the Plaza de l'U d'Octubre in 2017, behind the Eiximenis school, which will be renamed the Workers' Gardens of the Fàbrica Gròber, the textile factory founded in 1890 that at the beginning of the 20th century employed to more than 1,100 people, of which more than 900 were women.
The space in the Sant Ponç neighborhood, which has a sports court and children's games, on Esport Street, will be named Plaza de Simone de Beauvoir, the French novelist, philosopher and feminist.
The children's play area in front of the Annexa-Joan Puigbert school, in the Pedreres neighborhood, will be called Plaza de Maria Antònia Canals i Tolosa, in recognition of the Catalan teacher and mathematician.
Finally, the space with children's games in the Devesa-Güell neighborhood, between Pau Casals, Riu Güell and Bro printers streets, will be called Natàlia Molero and Lloret square, in memory of the writer, cultural manager and director of the Girona House of Culture between 2011 and his death, in 2015, at the age of 55.
Two roads in the new urbanization around the Clínia de Girona, in the south of the city, will be baptized with the names of Joan Ballesta Molinas, the last republican mayor of Girona, in 1939, and Pere Cerezo Hernáez, an ERC politician who He was mayor of Girona between 1937 and 1939.
