Lavapies IV

Lavapiés is Madrid at its most authentic, most surprising and most genuinely cosmopolitan — a neighbourhood where the city's extraordinarily diverse communities have coexisted for centuries in a street-level social fabric unlike anything else in the Spanish capital. Its sloping streets, traditional corrala courtyard buildings with their tiers of open galleries, and the animated daily life of the Plaza de Lavapiés create an atmosphere of irreducible character that has simultaneously attracted the city's creative class and preserved a working-class authenticity resistant to easy gentrification. The Reina Sofía Museum, home to Picasso's Guernica and one of the world's most important collections of 20th-century Spanish art, stands at the northern edge of the neighbourhood. The Rastro — Madrid's legendary Sunday flea market, one of the largest in Europe — spills down through the streets each weekend, transforming the hillside into a labyrinthine bazaar of antiques, curiosities and street food. Tabernas that have served generations of Madrileños stand beside innovative galleries, natural wine bars and restaurants cooking the cuisines of Madrid's international communities, creating a neighbourhood that is simultaneously timeless and entirely of the present.

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