Isabel Vicente García

Born in Almansa (Albacete), Isabel Vicente García was a textile worker at the famous La Sedeta factory in Barcelona's Gràcia neighbourhood. She entered the Francoist Les Corts prison in February 1940, along with Maria González, Maria Domènech Perich, and the sisters Teresa and Maria Hernández Sagués. She was 22 years old and had participated in the first clandestine PSUC network after the war ended.
She was sentenced to twelve years in prison and remained in Les Corts until 1947. Resuming her militant activities, she was detained several times and returned to Les Corts for shorter periods. One of these was in 1951, due to her trade union involvement in Barcelona’s famous tram strike. Her last imprisonment occurred in 1958. By then, the Les Corts prison had been dismantled, and Isabel was sent for a few months to a section for women at the men's Model prison, as the Trinitat prison had not yet been built.
In 1968, she was involved in founding the "Solidaritat" Committee to Aid Prisoners and later joined the Catalan Association of Former Political Prisoners of Francoism. In the 1977 general elections, she was a PSUC candidate for the Barcelona constituency. She passed away on 21 March 2000.
In 2018, Barcelona City Council inaugurated the passage named after Isabel Vicente in the Gràcia district.