Somorrostro
Somorrostro Beach is one of the beaches in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It is located between Hospital del Mar and Marina Street, in the far east area of the Barceloneta neighborhood, in the Ciutat Vella district. It is 522 m (length) and 89 m (width).[1] The Somorrostro name was forgotten and the beach became one of the most popular in the city. It was not until 2010, Somorrostro beach got its original name back.[2]
History
During the Nineteenth Century and part of the Twentieth Century, the beach, and much of the neighboring beach areas was occupied by a shanty town, inhabited by 15,000 people living in 2,000 slums. Known during this time as a gypsy community.[3] It was not until the 1966 visit of Spanish caudillo Francisco Franco that the slum removal began.[4] Most all of these slums were pulled down between the 1960s and 1980s.[5]
Famous gypsy flamenco dancers Carmen Amaya and Antoñita Singla were born in that neighborhood. And Los Tarantos, an academy award nominated film about flamenco starring Amaya, was filmed there in 1963.[5]
References
- "Somorrostro Beach". Barcelona Tourism. Retrieved 10 August 2014.
- "Barcelona recuperará el nombre de Somorrostro para un tramo de la playa" [Barcelona will recover the name of Somorrostro for a stretch of the beach]. La Vanguardia (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-11-27.
- Vila, M. (2017-05-24). "Shantytowns in Barcelona: in the shadows of history". EL PAÍS. Retrieved 2019-11-27.
- http://www.blog.oneholidayrentals.com/somorrostro-beach/
- "Somorrostro shanty town". IberiaNature. Retrieved 2014-09-18.
