Mónica del Raval, Barcelona's iconic former prostitute, dies at 60

Mónica del Raval, born sixty years ago in Villamanrique (Ciudad Real) under the name of Ramona Coronado García, died at the Hospital de Sant Pau. Her surprising makeup and crown over her platinum blonde hair were absent from the streets of Barcelona in recent years, as she had been hospitalized since 2018. But her image remains one of the icons of night culture and underground culture, forever remembered as the “queen of Raval”. In popular cultu…

His figure took on special importance in 2009 following a documentary that narrated his life on the streets of Barcelona.

Ramona Coronado Garcia, alias Mónica del Raval, but who held the honorary title of Queen of Raval, died this Tuesday at the age of 60, news that has spread quickly through social networks and has generated the reaction of many the figures of Barcelona's night scene, such as drag queen Samantha Ballentines, or the night entertainment group Arena, among others. The queen was Barcelona's most famous prostitute, an iconic figure who became a symbol …