Tomasa Cuevas

The Tomasa Cuevas civic centre hosts a permanent exhibition that invites visitors to take a journey through the life of Tomasa Cuevas, the active communist militant, anti-Francoist fighter, pioneer of feminism in the Spanish State, and example of struggle, dignity and memory. Detained and imprisoned in various prisons, in 1945 she entered the women's prison of Les Corts. After being released, she lived clandestinely for several years. A member of the Catalan Association of Former Political Prisoners, she wrote, already in democracy, a trilogy about women in Francoist prisons. For four years now she has given her name to one of the civic centres in the Les Corts neighbourhood.