Barcelona has launched a new Nomenclator portal, a digital tool that provides more accessible exploration of the official, current, and historical names of the city's streets, squares, gardens, and public spaces. The website offers citizens access to entries for over 4,600 of Barcelona's public spaces, including historical information, name context, and advanced search tools.
This renovation addresses the need to update a complex historical database, as the previous website was twenty years old. The new platform allows users to consult street histories, approval dates, routes, photographs, and detailed information, as well as locate streets on the city map. It also enables users to obtain street name change certifications for administrative procedures.
A notable new feature is the ability to submit inquiries and propose new names directly to the Secretariat of the Nomenclator Committee. This new communication channel streamlines interactions with citizens, who can also access general criteria, the procedure for assigning names to public spaces, and the functioning of the Nomenclator Committee.
The new Nomenclator website aims to serve as an entry point to the city's democratic memory, helping to understand Barcelona as a city built from multiple memories. This initiative is part of the City Council's Strategic Plan for Memory Policies 2026-2030, which includes revising the nomenclator to incorporate criteria of democratic memory, gender perspective, and the visibility of historically underrepresented groups.
In recent years, Barcelona has actively promoted the feminization of its street names. Between the two committee sessions in 2026, 21 new names have been approved, honoring women prominent in culture, science, philosophy, social activism, trade unionism, and politics. Over half of the new spaces approved during the current term are named after women.
Among the new additions are figures such as writers Isabel Clara-Simó, Teresa Pàmies, and Anna Maria Moix; photographer Colita; anti-Francoist victim Mercedes Núñez Targa; republican teacher Nativitat Yarza Planas; war photojournalism pioneer Gerda Taro; co-founder of Mujeres Libres Mercè Comaposada; and philosophers Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil. Figures linked to LGTBI memory, such as Carmen de Mairena, are also recognized.
