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MNF

The story of Madrid’s rare book store founded by legendary flamencologist

PODCAST: Maricarmen and The Madrid Encampment – A New Social Movement is Born

Housing movement escalates: Spain PM has until tomorrow to fix crisis

“I came home to a beach of plastic, then witnessed an unprecedented community response to the UK’s worst pellet spill”

Para los movimientos por la vivienda en España, la cultura se ha convertido en una nueva forma de resistencia

“I will die standing”: How Alejandro, 81, won the battle to stay in his home

FOOD

The understated rise of Madrid’s Bengali food scene – and five restaurants leading the way

Bar La Gloria, a charming no-frills bar in Prosperidad

Magical outdoor Iftar for kids reclaims public space for the people of Lavapiés

The seafood bar that does the best callos inside the M30

Food gentrification: How Lavapiés is quietly becoming a ‘food mirage’

The handwritten Spanish recipes hidden inside Madrid’s pre-loved cookbooks

Portrait of a 500-person Iftar inside Lavapiés’ largest mosque

Celebrating the Crisp Factories of Madrid

El Horno de Encomienda: three generations of Lavapiés patissiers

NO FRILLS

Bodegas Calatrava: “There aren’t many bodegas like this anymore”

Bar Vietnam: the beating heart of barrio San Cristóbal

Los Toldos Verdes: La bandera de los balcones de Madrid

Gracias por su visita: identidad, historia y resistencia en las servilletas

Bar Brusi: The ‘Bar El Palentino’ of Barcelona

Bar Crespo: A perfectly no-frills bar in Tetuán

75 years of Oroxata, a no-frills Valencian horchatería in Barrio Tetuán

Por qué Madrid está lleno de bares de toda la vida y cómo sobreviven a pesar de todo

“I’m tired”: our naïve nostalgia for Madrid’s no-frills bars

Gracias por su visita: A no-frills photography project about the Spanish tortilla

Seven no-frills decades of Estrecho’s Bar Los Pepes

The art of being a Madrid muse

CULTURE

Burn your homework then jump over the flames: Madrid’s solstice bonfire night breaks all the rules

‘Soy Tribulete 7’ documentary: One block’s fight against Madrid’s housing crisis – out now

Photographers of the Future May 2026 course enrolment now open!

The creepy Madrid church no one wants to protect

As 12 October approaches, hay algo que celebrar: This.

Madrid EXT: The film about Madrid you need to see right now

Giant abandoned bodega in Valencia set to become brand-new barrio

New Year’s Eve Portrait of the Oldest Bakery in Madrid

“If being homosexual was not a crime in Africa, we would not be in Spain”

Photographs of Valencia’s two historic floods: 1957 vs 2024

The end of La Canica – the ‘Anti-Bank’ in Madrid

El Rastro 2014 vs 2024: Bar El Diamante becomes a Día supermarket

LET'S TALK

Spain needs to normalise festival drugs testing – here’s how it’s being done

New Regularisation Law must also confront employer abuse – especially inside the Spanish home

One in two migrant domestic workers in Spain suffer gender-based violence inside employer’s home

Mazón’s belated resignation is no act of grace, it’s an insult to democracy

Pro-Palestine protesters successfully boycott the Vuelta a España

The hidden realities and quiet resilience of migrant domestic workers in Spain

Stop squirting tourists with water pistols and look at the real issue: a lack of affordable hotels

A day in the life of Spain’s Great Power Cut

Madrid’s bin strike explained

HOUSING

“I will die standing”: How Alejandro, 81, won the battle to stay in his home

Alejandro’s fight to keep his La Latina home sparks brand-new barrio movement, AV La Chispera

The religious landlords who keep trying evict Madrid’s vulnerable tenants

Two of the last historic buildings in Lavapiés have been saved from demolition

Council’s disastrous new housing law is the death of Madrid as we know it

The hidden crisis of ‘Invisible Evictions’

Margie, a poet in Madrid’s Literary District, is facing eviction from where her career began

Legendary Lavapiés shoe shop closes permanently with a fiesta the barrio will never forget

Two sisters take their own lives hours before being evicted

Meet the Lavapiés neighbours facing eviction by a film company

New ‘okupa’ CSO La Rosa is born today in a fight against the gentrification of Madrid

Music and protest against the eviction of Tribulete 7, Lavapiés

HISTORY

Analogue photography exhibition Rollo Mundial celebrates ‘the other side of football’

Spain is burning: The ‘mega-fires’ currently ripping through the country

Photos of Paiporta four months after the catastrophic Valencia floods

Progress in Paiporta: Volunteers and public services clean Valencia’s worst flood-affected town

Investigation: Counting the invisible victims of Spain’s EU borders

‘Pateras: the shame of Europe’: Barbate Port exhibits collection of abandoned migrant boats

The Melilla Massacre one year on

A brief history of Spain’s slave trade via Callejón de los Negros, Cádiz

How Madrid’s Ukrainian community are organising in response to Putin’s invasion