Mistral Avenue

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Updated: 10/01/2019

Avinguda de Mistral
08015 Barcelona
Barcelona

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Cultural productions:
Barcelona Film Commission
(+34) 93 454 80 66
filmcommission@bcn.cat

(You can also manage the permit by filling the forms in this website)

Commercial productions:
Oficina d'Informació i Tràmits - Guàrdia Urbana
(+34) 93 291 50 30
gu_oit_filmacions@bcn.cat

Until the beginning of the XXth Century, Avinguda Mistral was known as Passeig de la Creu Coberta. During the period of the dictatorship by General Primo de Rivera, was renamed Avenida de Milans del Bosch. After the 1929 World Fair, it was officially approved as it’s known nowadays, so to say, Avinguda de Mistral.

Frédéric Mistral (1830-1914), born in Maillane in the Bouches-du-Rhône département in southern France, was the son of wealthy landed farmers (François Mistral and Adelaide Poulinet, both of whom were related to the oldest families of Provence). Writer and lexicographer of the Occitan language, He received (ex aequo) the 1904 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was a founding member of Félibrige (a literary and cultural association, which made it possible to promote the Occitan language) and a member of l'Académie de Marseille.

Mistral is the author of Lou Tresor dóu Félibrige (1878–1886), which to date remains the most comprehensive dictionary of the Occitan language, and one of the most reliable, thanks to the precision of its definitions.