Intercultural City: Lavapiés (Madrid)

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Intercultural City

What is an intercultural city?

• A place where different ethnicgroups and nationalities livetogether in harmony

• They celebrate their festivalsand traditions.

• They are integrated in thesociety, but keeping their ownidentities.

There have been several examples of intercultural cities

in Spain throughout history, such as:

CÓRDOBA

MELILLA

TOLEDO

BARCELONA

SEVILLA

CEUTA

…but we have decided to focus on

Madrid and one of its boroughs…

A bit of History…

Lavapiés wasoriginally a square in thejewish quarter. There was

a fountain where peoplewashed their feet beforegoing inside thesinagogue. Now there is acatholic church where thesinagogue was.

LAVAPIÉSMadrid As A Melting Pot

Due to thegrowth of SpanishEconomy duringthe last decade,many immigrantscame to Spain.

LAVAPIÉSMadrid As A Melting Pot

Some of them chose Lavapiés asbuildings are old and rent prices wereaffordable.

A Street In LAVAPIÉS

Almost 50% of the people who live inLavapiés are immigrants or have aforeign origin.

SHARING spaces such as streets, medicalcenters, schools, bars, festivities…in HARMONY.

Living in LAVAPIÉS

The different communities live in HARMONYeven though they have gone through difficulttimes. In the past it was a dirty and violent

neighbourhood and now it is one of most livelyand colourful in Madrid. A perfect example of

Melting Pot.

Living In LAVAPIÉS

There is a flea marketon Sundays and Bank Holidays in Lavapiés where people of different origins selltheir items.

Living In LAVAPIÉS

Bollywood In The Street

DIFFERENT ORIGINS

• Many nationalities live in Lavapiés but we are going to focus on the five largest populationgroups:

– Eastern Europe –

– Northern Africa –

. – South America –

– South America –

– Asia –

DIFFERENT ORIGINS

ROMANIA

ROMANIAN COMMUNITY

One of the Romaniantradititions that has beenkept in Spain is the

Easter Eggs.

People paint the boiledeggs with differentcolours, patterns anddesigns and make battles.

ROMANIAN COMMUNITY

• They work in theprimary sectorsuch as agriculture.

ROMANIAN COMMUNITY

• Secondary sector:builders andindustry, specially.

MOROCCO

MOROCCAN COMMUNITY

• Moroccans feelcomfortable in Spain,because Spaniards arequite respectful withtheir traditions.

• In Madrid there are many mosques built for

the development of their religion.

RAMADAN

Muslims followreligious customsin Spain, such asRamadan, which isthe month offasting.

According to a survey

conducted in 2013 in

Madrid, many of the

immigrants are

unemployed, others

self-employed and many

in home construction.

CASA ÁRABE-Arabic House-

Established in 2006it is a meeting pointfor people related orinterested in theArabic world.

ECUADORECUADOR

ECUADORIAN COMMUNITY

Ecuadorian community is the second most populous in Spain.

Ecuadorian Immigration in Spain 2001-2012

Year Ecuadorian Residents

2001 139.023

2006 461.310

2012 306.380

ECUADORIAN GASTRONOMY

CEVICHE

CHURRASCO

CUY

COLOMBIAN COMMUNITY

• Columbian food isknown in Madrid andpeople eat dishessuch as arepa. It is afilled flatbread madeof ground maizedough or cookedflour

CASA AMÉRICA-HOUSE OF AMERICA-

HOUSE OF AMERICA (SINCE 1990) At LinaresPalace.

AIM: strengthen links between Spain and Latin AmericaACTIVITIES: meetings, conferences, exhibitions, debates…

CHINESE COMMUNITY

CHINESE COMMUNITY

The Chinese community

usually own restaurants,small grocery shops and shopswith all kind of things, called

pound shops or dollarstores.

Chinese New Year

Celebrating Spanish triumphsas Spaniards do

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