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- Gracias por su visita: A no-frills photography project about the Spanish tortilla
  
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  The art of being a Madrid muse
  
  10 Madrid No Frills bar backgrounds for your Zoom get-togethers
  
  Bodegas Rojo: Carabanchel Alto’s living museum of niche wine and spirits
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  Celebrating the voices of Barrio La Guindalera
  
  Empty Spain: The Valley of Fornela
  
  El Alamín: The utopian ghost town on the outskirts of Madrid
  
  Forget the Alhambra: This is Granada No Frills
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- Madrid’s golden age of commercial ceramic art
  
  Fighting for the future of El Rastro
  
  Captured: The neighbourhood spirit of the Rastro under lockdown
  
  Bodegas Rojo: Carabanchel Alto’s living museum of niche wine and spirits
  
  Pilgrimage to El Coleccionista: Lavapiés’ iconic comic book store
Lost & Found
- Map created under lockdown locates all graffiti artworks in Tetuán
  
  The secret street stickers of Madrid’s people
  
  A brief guide to Spain (written under Franco)
  
  Down the rabbit hole into Madrid’s 100-year-old metro system
  
  Seven secrets of Retiro Park
Let’s talk
- Selective confinement reawakens Vallekas’ ancient spirit of resistance
  
  We need to talk about racism towards Madrid’s Chinese community
  
  We need to talk about Madrid’s ‘Tourist Saviour Complex’
  
  The night Madrileños took back their city
  
  Inside a migrant safe house on ‘the coolest street in the world’
Activism
- Selective confinement reawakens Vallekas’ ancient spirit of resistance
  
  As Lavapiés’ food banks endure, it’s time to get involved
  
  Fighting for the future of El Rastro
  
  #Regularización Ya: The Spain movement calling for an end to institutional racism
  
  Madrid Activism: Bilingual list of local grass-roots groups
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Just an update on the Baobab story. Earlier this

Just an update on the Baobab story.

Earlier this year, their building was bought up by an investment firm who had plans to turn it into a hotel. Baobab closed and Lavapiés mourned.

Pictured is the back part of the building, which was temporary accommodation and hosted many newly arrived migrants. The investment firm evicted all guests and sealed up the entrance with concrete to (typically done to stop squatters entering). Meanwhile, it sits empty to regain value (a.k.a. property speculation) while over 150,000 flats across Madrid sit empty.

Around 2,800 people live on the streets, though likely more since this pre-Covid figure was calculated, and thousands more families are one rent away from eviction. Let's also talk about transition flats for recently arrived migrants, which often hold three to four times their intended capacity.

Madrid has the resources to fix this problem, but the regional government prioritises private investment and aesthetics over people. With the invasion of hotels and shiny new apartments comes the eviction of the working class from their homes, making Madrid City centre "more attractive".

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