That very special restaurant where you told your partner that you would love her forever now has uniformed waiters with the vocation of movie stars who don’t give a damn about your name days The site where you hid with those colleagues to drink even the water from the vases It now houses a block of apartments that are rented for periods of less than one year. And those undulating tiles of the Rambla that you jumped on as a child, being very careful not to step on the lines on their edges, are…
The councilor responsible for the Ciutat Vella district, Jordi Rabassa, delivered yesterday to eleven businesses located here tiles recently pardoned by the drilling machines that are currently transforming the most unique promenade in Barcelona. We are talking about the Museu de Cera, the Art Escudellers souvenir shop, the Núria, Moka and Vapiano restaurants, the La Cava Universal bar, the Laguarda jewelry store, the La Rambla Barcelona pharmacy, the Arc La Rambla and España hotels, from the Nomar fur shop, from the Tablao Flamenco Cordobés and also from McDonald’s.
It was a proposal from the Amics de la Rambla neighborhood and business association. Among all the messes typical of any reform, those of the entity stopped to think that the works as they were proposed meant the destruction of the historic paving of the promenade. La Vanguardia echoed an initiative that had its corresponding quarter of an hour of glory on social networks.
Relations between the City Council and Amics de la Rambla have been rather tense for years, and these pre-electoral weeks well, a little more. The government of Mayor Ada Colau is determined to install a public toilet in the central section of the promenade, in an unused flower stall. And the florists and Amics de la Rambla feel like a new nail in the coffin of Barcelona’s floral tradition. But the truth is that the government of Mayor Ada Colau picked up the gauntlet very soon, immediately sharing that the heritage of a city is also made up of minor details, that the feelings shared by people are not always clothed with a solemn transcendence of a national nature. . Sometimes the memory of a few childhood jumps breaks your voice.
Let’s see, it’s not such a big deal either, that renting a flat in Barcelona will continue to be a disgusting thing, and it’s most likely that as soon as you clear your throat it will take you a few years to remember the panots in question again. But it costs nothing. At the end of the day, it is nothing more than the floor of the road that most conflicting feelings from love to hate arouses among citizens.
The mayor Rabassa handed over to the businesses on the Rambla that so requested these tiles that evoke the proximity of the sea to the walker on the condition that they are displayed in a place where people can easily see them. That the City Council keeps a few to share, the tiles, not to turn them into a collector’s item. And the Ciutat Vella councilor added that if any association from the Raval and Gòtic neighborhoods wants a tile, they will also give it to them. La Rambla, said Rabassa, must be a meeting point between neighbourhoods, and not a border. And businesses, he added, also have to make an effort to achieve this, they also have their responsibilities, or does anyone really believe that uniformed waiters who are completely indifferent to your name days appear out of infused science?
