Navas is a neighborhood that was created relatively recently. Until the nineteenth century it was still an agricultural area, through which ran a stream, the Torrent de la Guineu, and in the twentieth century began, little by little, its construction to become the area it is now.
The torrent disappeared years ago, but now, some neighbors want this to be the name of the neighborhood, since, according to them, it represents them more.
As it is a “new creation” neighborhood, the name given to it was Navas, since Navas de Tolosa Street is its main street. This name, however, is not to everyone’s liking.
A name change almost approved
Last September the Association of Neighbors of Navas began a campaign to collect signatures to call Navas, Torrent de la Guineu. They got the minimum of 700 needed, and now, the plenary of the Dsitrito has approved the name change.
Therefore, now the proposal will be taken to the Barcelona City Council and, ultimately, to the Ponencia del Nomenclator, the commission that is responsible for the names of the streets of the city, would give its final verdict.
Therefore, the name change is halfway. If the City Council decides to accept it, it will be the first time that an entire neighborhood changes its name at the request of the neighbors, following in the footsteps of many streets, which in recent history have changed their religious or Francoist names for others more to the liking of the neighbors.