- Vallecas
Vallecas is a neighborhood of
Madrid composed of two districts: Puente de Vallecas (population 240,917) and Villa de Vallecas (population 65,162). The Villa of Vallecas was an independent village until1950 when it became part of Madrid.Vallecas is also known for its working-class inhabitants who are very proud of their district and name it familiarly as Vallekas or Valle del Kas. Thus, Valle"k"as and many other occurrences of the "k" instead of the "c" or "qu" in Spanish words, reflecting also a feature of the Basque, which has neither the "qu" nor the "c", replacing both with "k".
The local pride coalesces around the
Rayo Vallecano football team.During the decades of Franco regime, Vallecas earned its reputation as a neighbourhood of resistance to right-wing dictatorship.
In this tradition, Vallecas is also home to Spain's most renowned Ska-Punk band
Ska-P , popular all over Europe and famous for its anarchist and leftist lyrics.In the last years, the district of Vallecas Villa experienced an important enhancement with about 25.000 new flats and houses called "Pau de Vallecas" or "Ensanche de Vallecas", one of the biggest new areas in Madrid.
External links
* [http://www.vallecastodocultura.org/ Vallecas Todo Cultura] (in Spanish)
* [http://www.paudevallecas.org paudevallecas.org] (website of a neighborhood-organisation in the new housing area in the district of Vallecas Villa, with web-forum, in Spanish)
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