The Barcelona City Council presented the revamped Nomenclátor portal on Wednesday, which brings together over 4,600 entries for streets, squares, and gardens with historical information and advanced consultation tools.
The Barcelona City Council has launched a new Nomenclátor website, the tool that collects the official, current, and historical names of more than 4,600 streets in the city. The platform, accessible from this Wednesday, includes entries detailing the history of each public space, the year the name was approved, its route, photographs, and its location on the map.
The update comes after the previous portal, one of the most consulted by citizens, reached two decades of service. According to municipal sources, the old website required a functional and accessibility update to facilitate the consultation of a complex historical database.
Among the improvements, the new portal allows users to obtain the certificate of street name change, a document necessary for carrying out administrative procedures. It also includes a direct channel for residents to propose new names to the Nomenclátor Committee, which streamlines communication management.
The website also includes the general criteria and procedures for assigning names to public spaces, as well as the workings of the Committee. Users can discover not only the origins of the names but also the social, cultural, and democratic history they evoke, as highlighted by the council.
The launch is part of the Strategic Plan for Memory Policies 2026-2030, which positions the review of the nomenclátor as a key action to incorporate criteria of democratic memory, gender perspective, and visibility for historically underrepresented groups.
In this context, Barcelona has approved 21 new names dedicated to women this year, representing culture, science, philosophy, social activism, trade unionism, and politics. With these additions, more than half of the new spaces approved during the current mandate are named after women.
Among the new figures are writers Isabel Clara-Simó, Teresa Pàmies, and Anna Maria Moix, as well as photographer Colita. The antifascist victim Mercedes Núñez Targa is also included, replacing the falangist Ruiz de Alda in accordance with democratic memory legislation; republican teacher Nativitat Yarza Planas, the first democratically elected mayor in Catalonia; photojournalist Gerda Taro; co-founder of Mujeres Libres, Mercè Comaposada; and philosophers Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil.
The plan also aims to make visible traditionally marginalized groups, such as migrants, the LGTBI community, and those excluded from the public narrative. An example is the recognition of Carmen de Mairena, an emblematic figure of Barcelona's popular culture and the fight for diversity, who has already been incorporated into public space.
The new Nomenclátor portal is available on the municipal website, where any citizen can consult the entries, propose names, and access the necessary documentation for procedures related to name changes.
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