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Calle del Oso decorated by the barrio abuelas in all its fiesta finery! 💖

Dreaming of the no-frills fiestas of San Cayetano,

Dreaming of the no-frills fiestas of San Cayetano, Lorenzo and Paloma 💃🍋🍹✨

Photos from August 2019.

It seems that ten years after Madrid's 1887 Exhibi

It seems that ten years after Madrid's 1887 Exhibition of the Philippines, which featured 43 Igorot people in what today we can describe as a human zoo, Retiro Park hosted another exhibition.

In 1897, the 'Ashanti Exhibition" opened for business and featured people from Guinea and Ghana. The exhibition also travelled to Barcelona.

There was a further exhibition in Retiro Park of Inuits from northern Canada as recently as 1900.

As I do more research into these historic events which I'm almost struggling to believe because of how buried they are, I would appreciate that if you have any information, please send me a message!

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Add a frilly mini facade to the fire escape and it

Add a frilly mini facade to the fire escape and it becomes a no-frills side entrance to the Gran Legazpi Hotel! ✨

🔌 The Cañada Real has just passed the nine-mon

🔌 The Cañada Real has just passed the nine-month mark without electricity. These are the people living it.

Two summers ago, children living in Sector 6 of the Cañada Real were given disposable cameras by photographer Carlos Gutiérrez of @myviewproject who asked them to take pictures of their day-to-day lives. Over one month, 39 children took more than 450 photos between them.

Smiley portraits of friends, stills of meals, candid shots of families and hot, arid landscapes are all taken just three or four feet off the ground by kids as young as six. What we can see is that life in the Cañada is tough, but between the harsh landscape, makeshift housing and burning rubbish, there are moments of fun and games.

Sector 6 of the Cañada Real is home to 1,211 children, many of whom are Moroccan or Roma. Their ethnicity and neighbourhood come with strong stigmas that will stay with these children well into their adult lives, but this series of photographs hopes, for at least a moment, to steer the attention away from that and shine a light on the childhoods of the Cañada.

𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗻'𝘀 𝗚𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗼

𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗻'𝘀 𝗚𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗼 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗱𝗲

In 1749, orders were given by King Fernando VI for “all the gitanos of the kingdom of Spain” to be exterminated as “the final solution” to a population that “had an infectious root”.

The operation was coined 'the Gitano Raid' and left 12,000 Roma women, men and children dead, thousands of families dispersed and the economy of the Spanish Roma community ruined.

Despite Spain’s Roma population being reduced by a quarter, this significant incident went unnoticed for two centuries. Somehow, a genocide was completely erased from collective memory until just three decades ago when historian Antonio Gómez Alfaro recovered the episode, exposing the piece of paper giving the order to imprison the Gitanos – the one you can see above.

Today, no Spanish school textbook has ever made any reference to the genocide which saw a quarter of Spain’s Roma population extinguished. Yet, there's a street in Madrid named after the man who made the order: Calle Marqués de la Ensenada in the Serrano area of Madrid.

More than a million Spanish citizens are Roma, and their persecution continues.

🔵 Seventy percent of Roma over the age of 16 are illiterate.

🟢 The number of Roma children who drop out of school is 65%.

🔴 Completion of upper secondary school is just 5%.

⚪ The average age at which Roma children leave school is approximately 12.

🔵 School failure rate for Roma children is five times higher than children from non-Roma families.

🟢 Nearly 70% of Spanish Roma adults are illiterate.

🔴 The life span of Roma people is 10 years less than that of the majority population while the infant mortality rate is three times higher.

⚪ More than 12% live in segregated neighbourhoods, with indecent and low standards of housing, and with an average of 2.4 more people per room.

🔵 1 % of Roma people are homeless, 4% have no running water and 9% no electricity.

Read the full article linked in bio @madridnofrills.

#roma #romaniresistance #gitano #granredada

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