An Argentine president in Barcelona: unions and forgottenness around the Ronda del General Mitre

Abstract

The names of the cities’s streets as memory places, are an indicator of the past. Not only because of the element they want to reference, but for the next generations they’re also a reflection where the principles —political, social, conomic, religious and national— that had the authorities that built that symbolical places can be analyzed. In this article, we want to analyze the case of Ronda del General Mitre, a Barcelona street that wanted to be seen as an example of the union of two countries, two cultures and two pasts that influenced each other, but that as time passed, generated a conflict and a debate, as the referents that someday accompa¬nied a project of the memory of the city were forgotten.