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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

Esta Es Una Plaza: The urban garden community helping Lavapiés beat the heat

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

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

CULTURE

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

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!

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

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

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

‘They will not move us!’: Football fans protest the demolition of Vallecas stadium by creating human chain

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

HOUSING

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’

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

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

HISTORY

The creepy Madrid church no one wants to protect

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

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

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

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

Explore 250 of Madrid’s metro stations with this artist’s intricate drawings