A new neighbourhood to welcome immigration

The Montbau neighbourhood was planned during the 1950s, to accommodate the post-war immigration, mainly from southern Spain. The  Municipal Housing Trust had initially planned 1,300 homes, a number that would be doubled in during second phase from 1961 onwards. The Pla de Montbau was conceived as the epicentre of the new neighbourhood.

A plan recovered in 2009

A pond with a four-metre high bronze sculpture was put up in the centre of the square. A work by the sculptor Marcel Martí, it is called Ritme i projecte. The Pla de Montbau was remodelled in 2009, to recover the initial idea of being a large neighbourhood meeting place. The area was closed to vehicles and it is now a completely pedestrianised square. It saw the recovery of the ideas that inspired the neighbourhood and which came from the International Modern Architecture Congress founded in 1928 to promote rationalist architecture worldwide.