Carrer de les Monges

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This street used to be named after Elisa García, the first Sant Andreu woman killed at the front in the Civil War. The Sant Pacià parish church stands out on it.

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From January 1937 until the end of the Spanish Civil War, Carrer de les Monges was named after Elisa García (1916 – 1936), a militiawoman and cooperative member who died at the Front of Aragon in 1936, fighting against the military uprising. This Sant Andreu native, worker in the Fabra i Coats factory and member of the General Workers’ Union (UGT), was a militant from the youth section of Cooperativa l’Andreuenca. After the military uprising of 1936, Elisa García worked in hospitals and collective canteens in Sant Andreu. She enlisted as a volunteer in a column of the CNT (National Labour Confederation) to go fight as a militant at the Front of Aragon. She died at the age of 19 at Sariñena Hospital and is buried in the same city. She was the first woman from Sant Andreu to die at the front.

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