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Before the Civil War, La Font de la Guatlla also grew along the Gran Via. A chocolate factory and two light and bulb factories (Lámparas Z, on Mèxic Street, and Trèbol) were established there. The enriched ragman Pau Forns built six blocks of flats between numbers 272 and 282 of the Gran Via, which are still known as the Cases del Drapaire (Ragman's Houses). After the war, the rural atmosphere of the neighbourhood gradually faded. In 1949, the parish of Santa Dorotea was erected on an old wheat field. At the same time, characters such as the ricotta seller, the furrier, the sock seller or the pine nut seller, who sold five cents of pine nuts to children while telling them a story, gradually disappeared. On the other hand, the nine streets that were built going up towards Montjuïc were named after flowers: Dàlia, Gessamí, Crisantem... From such a secluded and small neighbourhood, the associative tradition is surprising. In 1889, the first leisure entity, Els Hereus, was created on Sant Fructuós Street. And a year later, El Recreo, next to an inn on Amposta Street. In 1910, the choir La Nova Lira d’Hostafrancs was founded, also on Sant Fructuós Street. Two years later, another entity was born, Panxeta, on Rabí Rubèn Street. Much of this activity was generated by the workers of the two large factories that were established in the neighbourhood following the example of Emili Clausoles' gas factory, located on the Gran Via. The average sale price is 4,482 €/m²Most houses were built between 1970 and 1979Most residents are over 65 years old
