The Marina del Port neighborhood will see the disappearance of Aviador Ruiz de Alda Street, co-founder of La Falange Española alongside José Antonio Primo de Rivera. This Francoist vestige is being replaced by the name Mercedes Núñez Targa, a Republican politician and active member of the French Resistance.
A survivor of the Ravensbrück concentration camp, she dedicated her life to testifying to the horror of fascism and defending democracy.
The change is part of the application of the Democratic Memory Law and follows a participatory process driven by local residents. The original street was dedicated on May 18, 1927, under the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera, honoring Ruiz de Alda and his companions from the 1926 transatlantic flight of the Plus Ultra, including Ramon Franco Bahamonde, the dictator's brother.
This modification adds to fifteen new female street names approved by the Nomenclature Committee of the Barcelona City Council in its first meeting of 2026. These new names, distributed across various districts, are linked to culture, social activism, and democratic memory.
