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The garden of La Ponderosa is the last remaining farm in the municipality of Barcelona city. Vallbona is located in the district of Nou Barris district and has an area of ​​7 hectares. His is a tenant farmer of 84 years who continues the activity, and brings the farm since 1951.
The value of the operation for citizenship is based on several factors: maintaining an agricultural economic activity in the city, remains an agricultural landscape in the valley of the River Besos, increases the biodiversity of the city, local produce vegetables, etc.
Moreover, it is the last economic activity that uses water from the Rec Comtal.
This property is part of the former Quadra Vallbona, which included the territory of the districts of Torre Baró, Ciutat Meridiana and Vallbona.
But the construction of Meridiana in the early 60s of the twentieth century changed the whole urban district making more disappeared also known eighteenth century farmhouse called Torre Baró.
Evidenment, there have been several plans to build on this property, the last just before the housing crisis, which involved the construction of an entire neighborhood of 3,000 homes on the property. The CIRS stopped acting, and temporarily saved the farm and agricultural activity.
Currently neighbors claim maintenance as permanent agricultural area, non-threatening urban development.

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