Barcelona has approved 30 new names for public spaces, with the biggest change in Nou Barris. Virrei Amat Square will become Joan Salvat-Papasseit, and 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. Barcelona 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.
The list also includes a street for writer Teresa Pàmies, a passage for writer Isabel Clara-Simó, and two gardens for 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.
Barcelona will also add 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 be added too, 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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