Barcelona will dress up on February 28, 2026, when the city will host the 40th edition of the Goya Awards. And to celebrate, the City Council has announced the creation of a Walk of Fame dedicated to the Catalan winners of Spanish cinema.
As Mayor Jaume Collboni explained during the presentation, it will not be a grand boulevard with Hollywood-style stars on the ground, but a “modest and ephemeral” installation: large-format photographs of all the Catalan winners of the 39 previous editions of the Goya Awards.
Where will Barcelona’s Walk of Fame be?
The plan is to locate it in the lower part of the Diagonal, from the Parc del Poblenou towards the sea, very close to the Centre de Convencions Internacional de Barcelona (CCIB), the Fòrum auditorium that will host the gala.
As we said, the Promenade will host large-format photos of Catalan actors who have received the Goya. Thus,this new Walk of Fame will feature such recognizable faces as Eduard Fernández, one of the great veterans of Spanish cinema with several Goyas to his name; David Verdaguer, awarded in 2024 for his performance in Saben aquell; Laia Costa, who made history in 2023 with Cinco lobitos; or emerging talents such as Enric Auquer and Quim Gutiérrez.
With this initiative, Barcelona will finally have a space that pays tribute to its cinematographic talents. Until now, it only had precedents in other areas: the hall of fame of Montjuïc, with the footprints of the Olympic heroes of ’92, or the plaques in the Rambla del Poblenou dedicated to illustrious neighbors.
The first Catalan “celebrities
Barcelona will not be the first Catalan city to inaugurate a promenade of this type: Castelldefels inaugurated in 2024 its own “Paseo de las Estrellas“, where the first honoree was Ronaldinho, with the idea of claiming to be “the Hollywood of southern Europe”.
In addition, in 2019 the Associació d’Empreses de Teatre de Catalunya (ADETCA) proposed transforming the Rambla into a “Rambla de las Artes”, with stars dedicated to figures such as Montserrat Caballé, Pepe Rubianes or Carles Santos. The project never came to fruition, but now the city is reviving the idea in Goya format.
For now, the only Catalan with a star on the real Hollywood Walk of Fame is the musician Xavier Cugat, born in Girona and successful in the United States.