La Guineueta (; "The Little Vixen") is one of the nine original neighbourhoods that gave name to the district
Nou Barris
Nou Barris (, "nine neighbourhoods") is one of the ten districts into which Barcelona has been officially divided since 1984. The name refers to the original nine neighbourhoods it was composed of, even though nowadays it's made up of thirteen. ...
(literally, ''nine neighbourhoods'') in
Barcelona. Actually, the district have 13 neighbourhoods.
Its size is about 57 ha. located between
Parc Central dels Nou Barris and
Parc de la Guineueta, and between
Plaça de Karl Marx and
Plaça de Llucmajor. Modern construction in the area began in the 1950s, and was settled by migrants from other parts of Spain. Before then there were just a few abandoned vineyards and cereal fields and the ruins of an
aqueduct.
The name of the neighbourhood means "little fox" in
Catalan
Catalan may refer to:
Catalonia
From, or related to Catalonia:
* Catalan language, a Romance language
* Catalans, an ethnic group formed by the people from, or with origins in, Northern or southern Catalonia
Places
* 13178 Catalan, asteroid #1 ...
and was the name of a ''mas'' (a country house) of the area.
The area known as ''Guineueta Nova'' was renamed as
Canyelles in the 1970s.
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Guineueta, la
Guineueta, la