Street sights in Spain
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Calle Calderería Nueva
Centre of the city’s modern Muslim community. The touristy shops brim with hookahs, slippers and scarves, but the mellow teahouses, such as Tetería As-Sirat, are popular with nondrinking Muslim youth.
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Calle Sierpes
Pedestrianised Calle Sierpes, heading north from the Plaza de San Francisco, and the parallel Calle Tetuán/Velázquez are the hub of Seville's fanciest shopping zone. Between the two streets is the 18th-century Capilla de San José, with breathtakingly intense baroque ornamentation.
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Carrer de Montcada
An early example of town planning, this medieval high street was driven towards the sea from the road that in the 12th century led northeast from the city walls. It was the city's snootiest address for the merchant classes. The bulk of the great mansions that remain today mostly date to the 14th and 15th centuries.
This area was the commercial heartland of medieval Barcelona. Five of the mansions on the east side of the street have been linked to house the Museu Picasso. Across the road, others house the Museu Barbier-Mueller d’Art Pre-Colombí and the Disseny Hub. Several other mansions on this street are commercial art galleries where you’re welcome to browse. The…
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Gran Vía
It’s difficult to imagine Madrid without Gran Vía, the grand boulevard lined with towering belle époque facades that climbs up through the centre of Madrid from Plaza de España then down to Calle de Alcalá. But it has only existed since 1910, when it was bulldozed through what was then a labyrinth of old streets. Plans for the boulevard were first announced in 1862 and so interminable were the delays that a famous zarzuela (satirical musical comedy), La Gran Vía, first performed in 1886, was penned to mock the city authorities. When finally completed, 14 streets disappeared off the map, as did 311 houses, including one where Goya had once lived.
It may have…
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