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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 COMMUNITY
Generally Latin American immigrants work as waiters, crafters and domestic help.
ECUADORIAN COMMUNITY
Ecuadorians usually work in the textile
business and in arts and crafts
ECUADORIAN GASTRONOMY
CEVICHE
CHURRASCO
CUY
COLOMBIA
COLOMBIAN COMMUNITY
Colombians started to migrate to Spain especiallysince 1989, but the boom of Colombian emigrationstarted in 1999.
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
CASA ASIA-HOUSE OF ASIA-
It was founded in 2001 to strenghten thelinks between Spain and Asian countries.
FOOTBALL AS A COMMON LINK
Traditionally all the communities we havementioned love football. One of the thingsthey do in Spain is supporting the SpanishNational Team, European and World
Champion.
Celebrating Spanish triumphsas Spaniards do
