Spain: A Garden in Trouble
Authorities want to bulldoze the Ágora Garden in Barcelona, the city’s most beautiful and socially-active park
Via Kate Brown
Shodo Magazine
Text: Col·lectiu Comí Barcelona
May 7, 2026
Excerpt:
Àgora Juan Andrés Benítez: The community garden fighting Barcelona’s rampant privatisation agenda. Resisting eviction from the banks, the bad debt machine and the city government.
Around the world, Barcelona is held up as a model of progressive politics and world-leading urban design, attracting more tourists than Brazil and Australia combined. But for the people who actually live in El Raval – one of Barcelona and Europe’s most densely populated, majority immigrant neighbourhoods – the city’s reputation doesn’t hold up.
In nine days time, police are coming to evict L’Àgora Juan Andrés Benítez: a community garden, kitchen and organising space in the heart of El Raval. Built on the corner where neighbour Juan Andrés Benítez was murdered by the police in 2013, a coalition of collectives seized a vacant lot to build a garden in his memory and in resistance to police violence. Over the last 11 years, the garden has bloomed into the heart of the neighbourhood, and an organising space for over 400 collectives.
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Source: https://cityfarmer.info/spain-a-garden-in-trouble/
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