The reform of the Rambla has reached the florists’ stops this Tuesday. Barcelona City Council has begun to dismantle seven flower stands that were disused in the center of the promenade. After the withdrawal of these kiosks, only eight will remain – among them the legendary Carolina flowers– which during the renovation of the Rambla will be provisionally moved to Plaza Catalunya.

The dismantling work on the seven stops that began this Tuesday will continue until November 8. The kiosks that are being removed – including where the failed Radio Rambla project was carried out – are located between numbers 100 and 114 on the promenade. Five of the stops are on the Besos side and two on the Llobregat side between numbers 79 and 87 of the promenade. These stops were closed due to the resignation of the owners or due to the amortization agreed between the City Council and owners in recent years.

The commissioner of the pact for Ciutat Vella, Ivan Pera, has assured that the step of dismantling the kiosks is “small but significant.” The Municipal Institute of Markets of Barcelona (IMMB) has already informed the owners of the active stalls that, when the reform requires them to occupy the central part of the promenade, they will be moved -provisionally- to Plaza Catalunya and will return to the promenade once the works have been completed. Pera maintains that this transfer is planned for the last quarter of 2025. Once the kiosks are moved, all the stops will be demolished and then others of the same volume will be built but with a different aesthetic.

Florist Carolina Pallés, in statements to EL PAÍS, maintains that the move to Plaza Catalunya can be positive. “The reform is necessary and we know that it will only be a few months of transfer. I think the place is good,” says Pallés. “At the moment, we do not have information on what the new stops will be like. They have asked us what we need but that’s it. I know that I will never have a kiosk as beautiful as the one I have again and I am sad to have to leave,” he admits. The Pallés kiosk is different from the rest. It was built in 1992 as a prototype of a new kiosk that in the end was not adopted but has remained in place for 32 years.

The commissioner of the pact for Ciutat Vella has highlighted that as the work progresses, the 11 stops of the old birdhouses that were permanently closed in the upper area of ​​the Rambla de Canaletes on September 16 will be demolished.

The renovation of the Rambla will be completed in 2027. The City Council plans to allocate an investment of 55.6 million euros to transform the entire promenade.