The 2026 Nomenclature Committee of the Barcelona City Council held its first meeting of the year on Monday, approving several new names for streets, squares, and gardens. The most significant change is the modification of the Manolo Vital Roundabout, in Nou Barris, which will now be called the Manolo Vital and Carme Vila Roundabout.
This decision, requested by the family, recognizes the trajectory of Carme Vila as a neighborhood activist and her important work in the literacy of older women in the Torre Baró neighborhood. The roundabout, located between Castellví and Lliçà streets, thus commemorates the couple's joint work in the neighborhood struggle.
The roundabout was already a symbol of the neighborhood, as it recalls the historic action of May 7, 1978, when Manolo Vital, a driver of bus line 47, “hijacked” a bus to take it for the first time to Torre Baró, which until then lacked public transport connection.
58.3% of the newly approved spaces carry female names, a further step in the policy of feminizing the nomenclature and correcting the historical imbalance.
This approval is part of the current mandate's policy of feminizing the nomenclature, where 58.3% of the 89 new roads approved bear women's names. Recognized female figures include the photographer Colita, the philosophers Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil, and the anti-Franco activist Mercedes Núñez Targa, who gives her name to the former Aviador Ruiz de Alda street.
