ROUTE OF THE MOST ILLUSTRIOUS WOMEN OF BARCELONA: SANTA EULÀLIA, ANNA MURIÀ, CARMEN LAFORET, …

Barcelona has always been a cosmopolitan city at the forefront of social progress. Women have had a great influence on the history of the city.

Get to know six different stories of six very different women who have left their mark on Barcelona.

Santa Eulàlia, the saint and martyr, patron saint of Barcelona. A strong woman who confronted the Governor of Barcino in the 7th century because of the persecution of Christians, for which she was imprisoned, brutally tortured and crucified.

Anna Murià is one of the most important Catalan journalists of the 20th century. Feminist committed to the education of working women. She was a restless and active woman in politics, an activist for several parties, and collaborated in publications such as La Rambla, Diari de Catalunya or La Dona catalana.

Carmen Laforet


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one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. At the age of twenty-three.won the Nadal Prize with“Nothing

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his first novel. He came to Barcelona to study Philosophy and Letters, an experience that would inspire him to create his own.best-known work. Its paeginas run through Las Ramblas, the Barrio Chino, Aribau, Drassanes or the Gothic Quarter.

Ana María Moix,
sister of the well-known novelist Terenci Moix was born into a destabilized family, with parents with 18 divorce decrees drawn up, living between shouts and brawls. To survive this, Ana María decided to shut herself up in silence, to make herself as invisible as possible. Of exceptional intelligence, at the age of 7 she was promoted to a grade with those twice her age and, at the age of 12, she began to write poetry with the influence of writers such as Bécquer, Azorín and Ana María Matute. Known to her brother’s friends as “La Nena” because of her young age, she was introduced to circles of the “Gauche divine“, an environment of rebellious writers, filmmakers, architects, artists, journalists, etc. admirers of the French ’68, who would be portrayed in his book “24 hours with the Gauche Divine“. His last work, “Personal Manifesto” (2011), is a denunciation of all the ills of Spain at that time, poorly educated young people, trash TV, consumerism, collapse of the welfare state, poverty, racism, classism and exploitation. Because of his intelligence, hypersensitivity, and shyness, writing was his escape route throughout his life. Recommend “24 hours with the Gauche

Divine”,

an ironic, ruthless, humorous portrait of that Barcelona of the seventies and of those men and women who were so intelligent and brilliant. Terence called her the Baby, and so she was also known among the divines

, who were much older than her.

Teresa Claramunt, the Spanish Louise Michel,
sHe dreamed of a more just, more beautiful and humane society. The daughter of a proletarian couple, she dropped out of school to work in a textile factory. At the age of 21, she took part in the seven-week strike to demand more decent wages and working hours. Because of the strike, Teresa was fired, and would never set foot in a factory again. Shortly afterwards he married and had two daughters, Proletaria Libre and Acracia, thus making clear his declaration of intent. She was the founder of the Section of Various Trades of Anarco collectivists of Sabadell and, later, the Autonomous Society of Women, the first Spanish feminist society. Their main denunciation was the degradation of working women in the face of working men. Teresa was unjustly imprisoned for being linked to the attacks on the Lyceum (1893) and the street Canvis Nous (1896), in which he had had nothing to do. Teresa’s last years were spent in Barcelona, ill due to the treatment she received in prison, always surrounded by friends and family. Teresa never lost the love that surrounded her and that was a large part of her life.