A recognition of his figure and his legacy
The Board of Spokespersons of Sabadell City Council has agreed this Wednesday that the promenade that was created after burying the tracks of the Generalitat de Catalunya (FGC) Railways between the neighborhoods of Gràcia and Can Feu will be named after the Mayor Antoni Farrés. This is what ERC has proposed, with the support of the PSC, Crida, Junts, Sabadell En Comú Podem and the abstentions of the PP and Vox.
Antoni Farrés was the mayor of Sabadell from 1979 to 1999, and is considered one of the most emblematic, admired and loved in the city’s recent history. The text of the motion describes him as a mayor with “clearly democratic, workers’ and Catalanist” values and a political and institutional management “based on service to the general interest, the flag of honesty and the ability to reach agreements and generate consensus far beyond a party.” “Current Sabadell and the city we know today cannot be understood without him and his style, and his work has received the unanimous applause of Sabadell society,” concludes the text.
A historic demand from the residents of Gràcia
The ERC initiative responds to an old request from the Association of Residents of Gràcia, who two months after the death of the mayor (February 13, 2009, 25 years ago now) requested that the space that was created with the burial was called “walk of the mayor Antoni Farrés”. The burial was completed ten years ago, and the development of this space left by the tracks is currently about to go out to tender.
Other changes and additions to the nomenclature
The same motion recalls that Sabadell City Council has approved other changes and additions to the city’s nomenclature: a space dedicated to Muriel Casals, and another to Pere Casaldàliga; delete from the public space several characters linked to the military dictatorships of Primo de Rivera and Franco and to slavery, and erect two monuments: one dedicated to Francesc Layret and another to Carlos Gardel, at the proposal of the association Gardelianos Sabadell – Tucarembó in 2014.