 When in the early 1970s advising Juan Carlos on prospective course to be adopted, he suggested as the man for future.He retained Catalan identity taking part in a number of regional initiatives and bodies, always perfectly within the limits permitted by the regime.Joaquín Bau is commemorated by a very short street in Madrid, a parking-lot-plaza in the Ferreries district of Tortosa (until 2017) and a long backyard drive in the resort town of Benicàssim, where the family owns a summer residence purchased by Bau in the 1950s; some of them are subject to various initiatives aiming at purging public space from Francoist or Fascist symbols.