Luchas callejeras

The end of the Franco dictatorship opened up a whole series of questions about how its cultural legacy should be dealt with in the public space. The social movements during the Spanish political transition carried out organised and com-mitted work in Barcelona to change the names of the city’s streets, a task that was taken up by the new democratic institutions, but not without difficulties. This text shows how the Francoist nomenclature was implemented and how, during the transition, neighbourhood mobilisations and the Catalan Culture Congress were organised to demand the return of the Republican names and their Catalanisation. On the other hand, we will see the different reactions of the city council until it carried out the renovation of the street directory and created the Ponència del nomenclàtor, the municipal instrument in charge of managing it.