Barcelona plans to change the name of the plaza de la Hispanidad – Sputnik World

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16:08 04.10.2016updated at 16:24 04.10.2016) shortened URL

According to progress of the Catalan daily La Vanguardia, the name change will occur upon completion of some remaining works on the site, so that “the name of the plaza de la Hispanidad has the days counted.”

The process of removal of the name began in the year 2005, when the plenary of the district to which it belongs, passed a proposition to change the name.

The proceedings were stalled for several years and came to be frozen, but in October of last year, the government of the district took up the issue.

The Hispanic community is a concept, which, especially in Catalonia, is linked with nationalist sentiment Spanish and the denial of the Catalan people as a nation.

The current mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau, belonging to a platform municipalist linked to we Can, also remove the street in barcelona-the name of the plaza Juan Carlos I, which will be renamed square Zinc D Gold medals (Five golds in Spanish), a name which it had at the beginning of the TWENTIETH century.

The changes in the public space of the Catalan capital do not affect, however, the iconic statue of Christopher Columbus which is located at the end of the Rambla.

The Candidacy of Popular Unity (CUP) requested that it be withdrawn and in its place you put up some type of artistic representation that recognize and homenajease to the victims of the slave trade.

however, the plenum of the Barcelona city Council voted last Friday against the approval of such proposal.