The secrets of Nou Barris I: the neighborhoods of Can Peguera, La Guineueta and Turó de la Peira

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DATE: February 20 at 10.30 am

Can Peguera, with its 650 first floor houses with a small garden built between 1929 and 1932, is the last vestige -with the permission of Bon Pastor- of the so-called cheap houses in Barcelona. It is a sort of village in the big city, a neighborhood inhabited by the children and grandchildren of the first tenants, in many cases people relocated from the shantytowns of Montjuïc who came to Barcelona to work on the construction of the subway and the Universal Exposition of 1929. About 2,000 people live in this urbanized neighborhood on the fields of the old Can Peguera farmhouse.

La Guineueta was born with the immigration of the seventies, when the area around the Passeig de Valldaura, the old road from Cornellà to Fogars de Tordera, was urbanized. And as happened with several other similar ones built at that time, the Guineueta could not have adequate services and infrastructure until many years after its construction. But despite the precariousness with which it was conceived, the Guineueta neighborhood has many places of interest, among which the Parc Central de Nou Barris stands out for its size.

The Turó de la Peira is one of the seven hills of the plain of Barcelona, a wooded area that, like the rest of the district, began to be urbanized in the fifties of the last century.

MAXIMUM 10 PEOPLE

GUIDE: TONI BELLIDO