The 47

‘El 47' tells the story of an act of peaceful dissent and the grassroots neighbourhood movement that transformed Barcelona in 1978 and changed the image of its suburbs forever. Manolo Vital was a bus driver who took over the number 47 bus to debunk a lie that the City Council insisted on repeating: buses could not climb the hills of the Torre Baró district. An act of rebellion that proved to be a catalyst for change, showing that people are proud of their roots, of a neighbourhood struggle, of the working class that helped create the modern Barcelona of the 1970s.

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