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unusual facts about Arganzuela


Santo Niño de Atocha

The town of Atocha, a now-lost district nearby Arganzuela, Madrid was lost to the Muslims, and many Christians there were taken prisoners as spoils of war.


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Cheli

Cheli, according to the Royal Spanish Academy, is the jargon with elements of certain traditional working class districts of Madrid, Spain, such as Lavapiés and Atocha in the southern part of the old city (close to cockney culture of London's East End), together with marginal and counter-cultural elements.


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