Barcelona

Parc de la Guineueta is one of a group of parks created in Barcelona during the second half of the 20th century to bring green spaces to the series of housing estates which were being built to house a large part of the migrant workers coming to the city in the 1950s and 1960s.
The partial plan for developing this new neighbourhood was approved in 1956 and houses continued to be built there until 1970, when the park was established. It is located in one of the two estates that make up the Guineueta neighbourhood, which is named after the Torrent de la Guineu stream that crosses it.

The sculpture linked to the park’s name is a 5-metre-long, 1.5-metre-tall painted iron work by Julià Riu i Serra. Entitled Guineu (Fox), it lurks behind a hedge, just like a fox lying in wait.
The other sculpture − or rather, monument − was an initiative of the Andalusian Centre in Catalonia and represents Barcelona’s homage to Blas Infante (regarded as the father of Andalusian nationalism). Designed by Josep Lluís Delgado, it consists of a row of small, truncated and irregularly sized columns (eight, the number of provinces in Andalusia) made from pink marble and placed on a base clad in black granite. There is a bronze work next it, standing on stone, a bust of Blas Infante by Xavier Cuenca Iturat.
Andalusian associations in the Nou Barris district’s hold Cruces de Mayo (May Cross) festivities for a fortnight every year and the Catalan Federation of Andalusian Cultural Associations lays a wreath at the monument on the first Sunday in March to mark Andalusia Day.