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Avenida de Asturias

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Avenida de Asturias
Width58 m (190 ft)
LocationMadrid, Spain
East endPlaza de Castilla
West endCalle de Sinesio Delgado

The Avenida de Asturias ("Avenue of Asturias") is a street in northwest Madrid, located in the district of Tetuán. A relatively recent urban development, opened in 2000, it hosts a multitudinous Sunday flea market since 2005.

History and description

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Twilight view from El Pilar neighborhood featuring the Puerta de Europa towers at the background.

It straddles along a E–W thalweg separating La Ventilla and Valdeacederas; with a difference in level between the maximum level at plaza de Castilla and the minimum level at the Paseo de la Dirección of about 32 metres.[1] The avenue, that starts in the plaza de Castilla and ends at its junction with the calle de Sinesio Delgado,[2] also links with the Paseo de la Dirección and the calle de Ginzo de Limia as major junctions.[3]

Its construction was part of the wider project for the reform of La Ventilla area, constituting the key axis of the latter.[4] The plot over which the street was built (along the very path of the former "calle de los Curtidos"),[5] was an area featuring high levels of urban decay.[6]

The reform of the area was passed through the modification of the 1985 Plan General de Ordenación Urbana (PGOU).[7] Several buildings works were carried out by the Instituto de la Vivienda de Madrid (IVIMA),[8] and the new street, with a total width of 58 metres,[9] was inaugurated in 2000.[10] The new housing has been however described as rather "impersonal".[11]

The Sunday flea market (mercadillo) installed in the street in 2005 is one of the biggest flea markets in the city.[12][13]

References

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Citations
  1. ^ Díaz-Mauriño 1996, pp. 25–26.
  2. ^ "Callejero oficial del Ayuntamiento de Madrid. 2015" (PDF). 58. Ayuntamiento de Madrid.
  3. ^ Palacios García 2007, pp. 198, 209.
  4. ^ Palacios García 2007, pp. 208–209.
  5. ^ Aguirre 2001; Palacios García 2007, p. 198
  6. ^ Palacios García 2007, pp. 191–192.
  7. ^ Palacios García 2007, p. 196.
  8. ^ "Madrid. Plan de Barrio. Almenara" (PDF). 4. Ayuntamiento de Madrid.[permanent dead link]
  9. ^ Palacios García 2007, p. 198.
  10. ^ Delgado 2007.
  11. ^ Sánchez Ramos, Bárbara (2014-12-04). "Las dos aceras de Tetuán". El País (in Spanish). ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 2020-02-19.
  12. ^ días, Tetuán 30 (2006-03-01). "El Rastrillo y la avenida de Asturias: un binomio perfecto". tetuan30dias.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-02-19.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  13. ^ "Mercadillos, outlets y 'pop up stores' I - Sibaritisimo". www.republica.com. Retrieved 2020-02-19.
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