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Villaverde (Madrid)

Villaverde () is one of the 21 districts of the city of Madrid, Spain.

Geography and history

The municipality was absorbed by Madrid in the 1950s as a result of the plans that the Franco government made to simplify the structure of big city administrations. Since then, it is a district. It was in those years when it experienced a massive growth caused by the rural flight in Spain. This is the reason that made Villaverde a typical working class neighbourhood.

This condition leaves a heavy footprint in the district, because it has conditioned the current population composition, with many retired people (some of them returning to their towns in Andalusia, Castile-León, ...) and immigrants attracted by the cheap housing prices.

The district is administratively divided into five wards ('):

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