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Plaça de Ramon M. Roca i Sastre

Download date: 10/04/2024

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What is now a pleasant meeting place for university students was once the site of the most important Francoist sculpture in Barcelona until 2005: the Monument to the Fallen.

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This square is named after a Catalan jurist (Tàrrega, 1899 – Barcelona, 1979). A graduate from the University of Barcelona, he specialised in mortgage law (his five-volume work is considered a landmark) and the inheritance law included in Catalan civil law. The square lies occupies the former site of ‘Monument to the Fallen’, an example of the most Francoist-style sculpture demolished pulled down in response to social demands. So, a square originally intended to pay homage to Francoist repression pays tribute today to one of the most remarkable intellectuals in Catalan law who had personally suffered repression under the dictatorship. This square, located opposite the Palau de Pedralbes, between the faculties of Chemistry and of Biology at the University of Barcelona, is now a garden full of trees, benches and street lights, a meeting point for pedestrians and students at the south Campus. This garden has trees from several species. There are five remarkable yellow-leaf trees at the front and four red -leaf trees at the back: species of poplar and sweet gum. The complex is rounded off with a paved area, benches and street lights, and a lawn area.

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Plaça de Ramon M. Roca i Sastre

Address:
Pl Ramon M. Roca Sastre, 0
Districte:
Les Corts
Neighborhood:
la Maternitat i Sant Ramon
City:
Barcelona

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Inaugurada amb aquesta denominació el 21 de juliol de 2012, està situada a la confluència de l'avinguda Diagonal amb el carrer de Martí i Franquès.

Aquesta plaça pren el nom del jurista català (Tàrrega, 1899 – Barcelona, 1979) llicenciat l'any 1921 per la Universitat de Barcelona i especialitzat en el dret hipotecari (la seva obra en cinc volums és considerada un referent) i en el dret successori contingut en el dret civil català.

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