Barcelona has approved 30 new names for public spaces, with the biggest local change in Nou Barris, where Virrei Amat Square will become Joan Salvat-Papasseit. The city says the name restores one first approved in 1933.
The decision was confirmed by the Ajuntament de Barcelona’s Nomenclàtor on Friday. It follows a district plenary agreement and a citizen proposal in Nou Barris, and 12 of the 30 new names will honour women.
Among the other changes, Sant Martí will get gardens named after Catalan playwright Josep Maria Benet i Jornet. The city also plans to recognise architect Joan Antoni Solans with a new square, while sculptors Josep Maria Subirachs and Manolo Hugué will be named in gardens and a street respectively.
Barcelona will also dedicate a street to writer Teresa Pàmies, a passage to writer Isabel Clara-Simó, and two gardens to novelist Anna Maria Moix and painter Joan Josep Tharrats. In Gràcia, a plaza will honour comic character Capitán Trueno, created by writer Víctor Mora, and gardens between Carrer Esteve Terradas and Avinguda Vallcarca will be named after musician Luis Eduardo Aute.
The list also includes memory plaques for meteorologist Eduard Fontserè at Carrer Nou de la Rambla 24, former Santa Coloma de Gramenet mayor Lluís Hernàndez at Carrer Agustí Milà 58, and activist and musician Jordi Fàbregas in Gràcia. Two lecterns will also be added, one in Ciutadella Park and another in Parc de l'Espanya Industrial, to mark the birth of mass political parties and the neighbourhood movement, as well as Joan Antoni Solans.
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