Sant Gervasi de Cassoles
The former municipality of Sant Gervasi de Cassoles, annexed to Barcelona in 1897, extended over a large part of the former district III of Barcelona, to the northwest of the city, between the municipalities, also formerly independent, of Sarrià, Les Corts de Sarrià, Gràcia and Horta.
Currently the old nucleus of Sant Gervasi de Cassoles is divided into two neighborhoods of the district of Sarrià-Sant Gervasi called: Sant Gervasi-La Bonanova and Sant Gervasi-Galvany. The oldest and most central part of Sant Gervasi de Cassoles is located in the district of Sant Gervasi - la Bonanova, in the Sant Gervasi sector of this district, and in Sant Gervasi-Galvany is the lowest part of the old municipality.
The name of Sant Gervasi de Cassoles corresponds to the invocation of a primitive rural chapel or church, named already in 987. The origin of Cassoles is more uncertain, being able to come from:
- From a derivative of "isolated houses" added to "soles". Thus, it would be a contraction of isolated houses + soles: cassoles.
- Of the possible existence of brickworks who made cassoles.
- Of casules.
The chapel of Saints Gervasius and Protasius has kept its original location, and until the 18th century the main dedication, since an altar was added with an image of the Mare de Déu dels Afortunats or Bonanova, which displaced the cult of the twin saints.
The primitive nucleus of the village was formed around the church and the road that led to it.