Nou Barris · 48
la Guineueta
La Guineueta takes its name from a vanished farmhouse, Can Guineueta; it was built in the 1960s in two zones divided by Passeig de Valldaura, and residents won the Parc de la Guineueta in 1971, while the Parc Central de Nou Barris grew on the grounds of the old mental hospital.[1][2]
In the Parc de la Guineueta you stand in the bed of the old Torrent de la Guineu: its urbanisation, one of the milestones residents won by campaigning, turned it into the park in 1971.[1][2]
La Guineueta is a Nou Barris neighbourhood of more than 15,000 residents with two housing zones: the northern one, with four-storey blocks and the Parc de la Guineueta, and the southern one, with Barcinova and Calinova beside the Parc Central, where the district headquarters stands.[1][2]
The northern zone was built with developments by the Obra Sindical del Hogar, the Cooperativa La Puntual and firms such as Telefónica, Catalana de Gas and Fecsa; the southern one on land the Institut de la Santa Creu had occupied.[1]
la Guineueta (neighbourhood 48) highlighted. Other neighbourhoods in Nou Barris: Vilapicina i la Torre Llobeta, Porta, el Turó de la Peira, Can Peguera, Verdun, la Prosperitat.
Where the name comes from
The name comes from Can Guineueta, a farmhouse that for many years stood beside the old road from Cornellà to Fogars de Tordera, roughly where Passeig de Valldaura now meets Carrer de la Gasela.[1][2]
The neighbourhood is bounded by the Ronda de Dalt (Via Favència), Carrer de Mont-ral, Passeig d'Urrutia, Passeig de Verdum and Carrer de l'Artesania, and borders Canyelles, Verdum, Porta, Turó de la Peira, Can Peguera and Horta.[2][3]
Before the neighbourhood
The farmland around Can Guineueta began to disappear in the 1940s, but the area was not built up until the 1960s. Ca n'Ensenya, the farmhouse that still stands, dates from 1876 and belonged to the Mental de Sant Pau.[1][4][2][5]
Beside it the Institut Mental de la Santa Creu had opened in 1889, with room for more than 700 patients. The demolition of much of the hospital left free the land where Barcinova, Calinova and the Parc Central were built.[2][1]
How the streets were made
The northern zone is an estate of four-storey buildings with small flats, with gardens between the blocks made in the 1990s. The Parc de la Guineueta, which follows the stream bed, is its main green space.[2][1]
In the south, the Parc Central de Nou Barris, by Carme Fiol and Andreu Arriola, keeps the Dosrius aqueduct (nineteenth century) and the farmhouse of Can Carreras (seventeenth century); the preserved part of the Mental building houses the district seat, the Guàrdia Urbana and the library.[1]
Dates that changed it
- 1876: date of the Ca n'Ensenya farmhouse, which belonged to the Mental de Sant Pau.[4][2][5]
- 1889: the Institut Mental de la Santa Creu opens, with room for more than 700 patients.[2][1]
- 1940s: the farmland around Can Guineueta begins to disappear.[1]
- 1960s: the area is built up in two zones divided by Passeig de Valldaura.[1]
- 1971: the Torrent de la Guineu is turned into the Parc de la Guineueta.[1][2]
- 1990s: the Parc Central de Nou Barris opens on the old hospital land.[1]
- 2007: the covering of the Ronda de Dalt through the neighbourhood and Canyelles is completed.[2]
- 18 November 2025: the Can Carreres farmhouse is undergoing renovation work for a nursery and the EAIA.[6][7][8]
People and collective life
People behind the buildings
Institutions
La Masia de la Guineueta
Facility at Plaça de Ca n'Ensenya 4 in the old Ca n'Ensenya farmhouse: a Casal de Joves and the base of about twelve local associations.[4][2][5]
Seu del Districte de Nou Barris
The district seat, at Plaça Major de Nou Barris 1, is in the preserved part of the Mental building, shared with the Guàrdia Urbana and the library.[1]
INS Guineueta
School that since 2024-25 has been the new Institut de Seguretat i Mobilitat de Barcelona, with vocational training and baccalaureate for 600 students.[8]
Struggles that left a mark
Services and a park in the 1970s
Demand: The northern zone began with the same shortages of infrastructure and services as other Franco-era neighbourhoods, and residents had to fight for facilities and services. One milestone was the urbanisation of the Torrent de la Guineu, turned into the Parc de la Guineueta in 1971.[1][2]
The Ronda de Dalt and the CAP emergency service
Demand: The covering of the Ronda de Dalt, promised by Mayor Maragall, was only completed in 2007. The later fight against closing the CAP Guineueta emergency service, which also affected Canyelles and Can Peguera, led to dozens of road blockades on the Ronda.[2]
Outcome: An ambulance service and a community-health space, without night reopening.[2]
The courtyard interiors and the lifts
Demand: The residents' association is pressing to finish phase 4 of the courtyard-interior renovation and asks for lifts, new water pipes and electrical network, and gardens kept apart from buildings to avoid damp.[9][8]
Outcome: Ongoing; in the documents read, phase 4 works had not been tendered as of October 2026.[8][10]
What can still be seen
Masia de Ca n'Ensenya
Farmhouse of 1876, also called Ca n'Amell Gran or Masia de la Guineueta, once owned by the Mental de Sant Pau and now home to a youth community centre and associations.[4][2][5]
Aqüeducte Dosrius
A nineteenth-century aqueduct built to bring water to Barcelona, now inside the Parc Central de Nou Barris.[1]
What disappeared
The neighbourhood today
In 2026 La Guineueta had 15,624 residents, a density of 255.3 people per hectare, a €22,188 mean census-section income in 2023, 61.2 hectares, and 14.3% of residents held non-Spanish nationality.[11][12][13][14]
Non-Spanish nationality (2026): 14.3%
What is changing
Can Carreres farmhouse: nursery and EAIA (works, Nov 2025)
On 18 November 2025 the Can Carreres farmhouse in the Parc Central was undergoing renovation work, emptied and with its roof removed, after about thirty years of abandonment. It will house an 87-place municipal nursery in a semi-basement extension and the Nou Barris EAIA service, for about nine million euros, with opening foreseen for September 2027. We found no later document changing that timetable.[6][7][8]
Carrer de l'Artesania: wider pavements and trees (announced June 2026)
In June 2026 the City Council announced the redevelopment of Carrer de l'Artesania between Via Júlia and Carrer de Ponce de León, over about 4,800 m² and with a budget of 2.72 million euros, extending the Parc de la Guineueta to Artesania. The project had initial approval and was to go to public information before tender; works were planned from early 2027 to the second half of that year.[15]
Courtyard interiors, phase 4 (as of Oct 2026, no works confirmed)
The fourth and last phase of the courtyard-interior renovation is budgeted at 10 million euros and split into four sub-phases. In December 2024 the detailed design of the first was being written and works were foreseeable from 2027; in March 2025 the district said the preliminary project would be tendered within a week. We found no later public document. Separately, the Escola Àgora extension, costed at about 1.78 million euros, was still awaiting its budget allocation in December 2024.[8][10][9]
What the guides leave out
Read it on foot
Start: Metro L3 Canyelles · End: Parc Central de Nou Barris[1]
Walking (excluding stop time): 17 min · 1240 m · Estimated visit (with stops): 59 min
The geometry follows the pedestrian network between the four marked points, but it has not been verified as step-free. The approach from public transport is not included in the stated distance.
la Guineueta (neighbourhood 48) highlighted. Other neighbourhoods in Nou Barris: Vilapicina i la Torre Llobeta, Porta, el Turó de la Peira, Can Peguera, Verdun, la Prosperitat.
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Sources for this page
Dates, figures and historical claims are linked to the records used for this page.
- [1] Districte de Nou Barris, Ajuntament de Barcelona (2026). Història de la Guineueta. Accessed: 2026-10-03.
- [2] Viquipèdia (2024). la Guineueta (barri de Barcelona). Accessed: 2026-10-03.
- [3] Ajuntament de Barcelona — Open Data BCN (2026). Barris (administrative units layer); adjacency computed by the editors from the boundary polygons. Accessed: 2026-10-09.
- [4] Diputació de Barcelona, Servei de Joventut (2020). Casal de Joves Guineueta, La Masia de la Guineueta (fitxa de trajectòria). Accessed: 2026-10-03.
- [5] Ajuntament de Barcelona (2020). La Masia de la Guineueta (fitxa d'equipament). Accessed: 2026-10-03.
- [6] betevé (2025-11-18). Imatge insòlita de la masia de Can Carreres: amb l'esquelet, durant la rehabilitació. Accessed: 2026-10-03.
- [7] betevé (2024-12-24). La masia de Can Carreres, a Nou Barris, acollirà una escola bressol municipal el 2027. Accessed: 2026-10-03.
- [8] Districte de Nou Barris (2024-12-18). Consell de Barri de la Guineueta: resum dels punts de l'ordre del dia i acords (18 de desembre de 2024). Accessed: 2026-10-03.
- [9] betevé (2024-01-15). La Guineueta podria tenir un pla específic per resoldre els problemes dels interiors d'illa. Accessed: 2026-10-03.
- [10] Districte de Nou Barris (2025-03-17). Acta resum de les intervencions, Audiència Pública del 17 de març de 2025. Accessed: 2026-10-03.
- [11] Ajuntament de Barcelona — Open Data BCN (2026-01-01). Padró municipal d'habitants (pad_mdbas) — població per barri. Accessed: 2026-07-17.
- [12] Ajuntament de Barcelona — Open Data BCN (2021). Densitat de població per barri. Accessed: 2026-07-17.
- [13] Ajuntament de Barcelona — Open Data BCN (2023). Renda disponible de les llars per persona. Seccions censals. Accessed: 2026-07-17.
- [14] Ajuntament de Barcelona — Open Data BCN (2026-01-01). Població per nacionalitat i sexe. Barris. Accessed: 2026-07-17.
- [15] Metròpoli Abierta (2026-06-14). Barcelona ampliarà aquest popular parc de Nou Barris per gairebé tres milions d'euros. Accessed: 2026-10-03.
Last reviewed: 3 October 2026 · 15 sources consulted