Sants, la pagesia a les arrels (Sants, Rooted in Farming) mural

This is the story of the Burés Fàbregues family. A photograph taken in 1941 featuring a cart and three adults with two boys and two girls. One of them, Mercè Burés, is Carles and Josep Pageo's mother. Decades later, the brothers wanted to pay tribute to her to mark her 85th birthday.

A mural that champions the neighbourhood's rural, farming past, and an artist, Roc Blackblock, who has skilfully transferred an old photograph onto a 10-metre-wide, 30 metre-tall wall on the side of a building.

The artist set to work and, thirty hours later, saw the family's dream come true. The top half of the wall features a faithful reproduction of the original photo and, below it, there is a sickle with ears of wheat.

Tools and implements that remind us of the work in the field that has long died out in the city put in the spotlight by one of the most current manifestations of street art. An example of the way painting can move us and rescue a not-too-distant past from oblivion. A memory that remains very much alive in Barcelona's working-class district of Sants.