Carrer Manigua takes its name from the forest of Cuba’s characteristic tropical swamp vegetation. The first buildings in the neighbourhood, mostly summer homes, were built around Carrer Garcilaso, which crosses Carrer Manigua. This street also shares the limelight with Carrer Garcilaso and Carrer Acàcies for having housed the walls of the institute of Dr Jaume Ferran i Clua (1851-1929), one of the most important Catalan scientists of the 20th century. This bacteriological-research laboratory, which developed vaccines against cholera, tuberculosis, typhoid and rabies, remained in operation until the 1970s. Currently, the land where the laboratory was located on has two schools and other facilities, but the original wall and entrance can still be found on Carrer Garcilaso, as can one of the buildings of the former laboratory at the corner of Carrer Garcilaso and Carrer Acàcies. It is very near here, at the Jardins de Jaume Ferran i Clua, that we can find a monument to Dr Ferran by the sculptor Josep Cañas i Cañas.