Ah, but how long before it is rebuilt as a theme park? Plaza de San Felipe Neri is one of the most interesting examples of the latter in Barcelona. Only in the demolition of marginal and shanty towns have Spanish planners approached the rigour of the Chinese authorities. Half of the valley of Torre del Baró remains, ignored by the city’s trendy anti-speculation punkies, and hoping without any great sense of optimism that the council has not promised to leave them alone in order to avoid their joining the protests of the evicted, who were rehoused from 217 quite substantial self-built houses and 70 plots with gardens, chickens and the occasional pig into pokey flats in central Nou Barris.
The neighbourhood, with newer blocks of smack flats behind:
The tower from which it takes its name:
Unusually, graffiti:
My favourite spring, just over the hill on the way down to Canyelles:
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