Rastro de Madrid
Historic Sunday flea market spilling down a sloped street once walked by tanners and butchers.
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This guide to the Rastro in Madrid opens in 1611, with a dictionary maker explaining a blunt piece of the city's vocabulary, then goes down the hillside below Plaza de Cascorro to meet the butchers, tanners and old-clothes dealers who shaped it. Along the way you run into the cigarette-factory women and the manolos of Lavapiés. Best heard standing by the soldier's statue at the top of the slope, looking down Ribera de Curtidores.
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