The area of Embajadores is a barrios in transition. Down-at-heel at the bottom of Calle de Embajadores, gentrifying as you rise up to Plaza de Cascorro - graffiti giving way to street art, hipster barber shops and artisanal bakeries. The Fabrica De Tabacos closed in 2000, after more than two hundred years as Madrid’s main [...]
Parque del Oeste – frontline of the battle for Madrid
By 1930, failure of the Spanish economy, governmental corruption and a military coup favouring a republic, led to the resignation of the ‘mild dictator’; Miguel Primo de Rivera, who died shortly after in exile. The subsequent 1931 general election returned a left-wing republican government and Spain experienced an all-too-brief period of democracy. Strident in its [...]