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Celestina Vigneaux i Cibils

Girona, 1878 - Barcelona, 1964

Year of approval: 2006

Length: 500m2

Location: South, 17003

Although she has become eclipsed by the fame of her husband, the writer, politician and journalist Pere Coromines, and also her eight children’s fame, she was a distinguished catalan pedagogue and teacher, concretely because of her intense desire of innovating in the educative field. 

She obtained excellent results in her studies and being only 20 years old she got a job in a pre-school in Madrid, where she stood out for her pedagogical innovation. In Madrid she met the man who would be her future husband and it was him that convinced her of returning to Catalonia. There she had the eighth children and continued working in the educative field. Within her task she included a mental calculation conference (1900), propelled the first school canteen in Madrid (1902), and the first in Barcelona too (1907), promoted singing and rithmic education and raised awareness of the hygienic conditions and the space that schools must have. She travelled around Europe so she could discover other educative systems, for example the Montessori method, the one she learned attending the II International Montessori Course that took place in Rome on 1914. Later she was one of the introductors of this method in the Catalan schools. 

Her big professional career and her vocation were cut short by a pulmonar illness. Then, when the Spanish Civil War was finished, she had to go into exile with her husband to Buenos aires, where he died. Later, in 1945, she was able to return to his native land, where she continued living with some of her children until he died in 1964.

She was voted in a participatory process in March 2010 in Palafrugell, of women who deserved a street.

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