In and around this area are the origins of Madrid. Its difficult to put precise boundaries on La Latina, because, like its immediate neighbors, streets are narrow and winding. There are quite a few nightlife spots, though the neighborhood is best known as having one of the best concentrations of tapas bars (particularly on the Cava Baja and Cava Alta). There are also a number of attractive churches, like the Iglesia de San Andres and the Iglesia de San Francisco el Grande,.
On Sundays and major holidays, the Rastro flea-market begins on the eastern edge of La Latina, spilling out of the San Millan exit of the La Latina metro stop to the Plaza de Cascorro all the way to the Ronda de Toledo to the south. Plaza de la Paja is another interesting and entertaining spot of this neighborhood.
On the other side, La Latina borders with Plaza Mayor and another ancient part of the town, Los Austrias, where the Palacio Real (Royal Palace) is located.
There has been a recent increase in the population of LGBT individuals in the community due to the cheap housing prices.
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Unlike elsewhere, the neighborhood of La Latina was formed very early and had a particularly long time integration and coexistence of almost all social strata. Major and minor nobility, clergy, rich and poor of the various churches and chapels, diplomats associated with the Nunciature, artisans of various trades that ended up giving its name to the streets where they practiced their craft, and especially merchants and resellers outside Madrid bargain or trade, who, along with residents of some suburbs of semicampesinos and semidelincuentes that colaban through the Puerta de Toledo, among all created a very strange setup urban and social dynamics.
Puerta Cerrada downhill from the street of Segovia.
Spatial segregation by neighborhood, finally in Madrid since the nineteenth century, the aristocrats who did leave their palaces, which, coupled with the confiscation of Mendizábal, led to topple the most important sites for construction of buildings for rent with the highest possible use, ie pens, the minimum distribution space family. In sum, the highest class fled the area and its space was filled with what today is known as vertical slums.
Teatro La Latina on the Plaza de la Cebada Madrid
The advent of historical consciousness to the authorities, little by little since the second half of the twentieth century has led to enormous social and economic upgrading of the area. With its urban design and nearly identical with very few samples of its historic buildings, prior to the nineteenth century-the Latin Quarter has become one of the major art centers, tourism and leisure in the city. Measure closeness and distance from the center of the city-history characteristics make it a desired residential location offers plenty of leisure and hospitality industries. Since 1980 a specific urban plan protects your buildings and along with that plan for recovery of the market environment of the Cebada include rehabilitation of other historic sites such as those on Cavas or old walls. [11] Furthermore, the district of America has the Teatro La Latina and several small theaters, and also serves as a stage for most of the films that are shot in Madrid and in the streets it is not difficult to find celebrities for the seventh art, culture and television.
The pedestrian nature of most of its many places makes its terraces are full every night since the beginning of spring until well into the fall and collect large agglomerations of young and middle-aged on the nights of the weekend enjoying the coffee shops, taverns and restaurants. In its buildings, most of them rehabilitated, even the last living representatives of the most popular with generations of young bohemians and wealthy upper-middle. In this regard it is noteworthy that the Latin was the second in Madrid foneado be (after the district of Chueca). Something similar is to observe the layout of shops, as wall together with the more traditional wall and craftsmen with the locations of design and new trends.
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