La+Judería+de+Lavapiés+(English)

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History
The first reference that is known of the existence of the jews in Madrid is in the year 1053, when Madrid was a little population dominated by the arabs. In the year 1202 the king "Alfonso VIII" dictates the Jurisdiction of Madrid and in it make reference to the jews of Madrid. In the 13th and 14th the jew population of madrid increases,until the year 1391,in which a wave of Anti-Semites debastate the mosques of Castile and their citizens were obligated to baptize. In 1480 the Courts of Toledo gave the order of the obligated the jews to habite a determinated streets, agrupated, afecting very negatively the jews of Madrid. Some years later, the jews of Madrid were obligated to leave the kingdom o became cristians. Nowadays jews population in Madrid is smaller comparated whit other cities of Europe but enjoys of very good health. Lavapiés is one of the olds neighborhood of Madrid. In it´s origins was La Judería de Madrid. In 1391 it sufer an attack in La Fe, Ave María, Sombrerete and Jesús y María streets. Few jews were autorizated to live aout of the jewry and also it was closed by a wall during the night. In "Salitre" street were find remains of a jewish cementery. Lavapies continued being a suburb during centuries, receiving the continues waves of inmigrants wich expulsed the growth of La Villa de la España rural. The neighborhood reached our days as a cheap neighborhood of Madrid were live young and old people.; in the last decades the waves of new magrebies, indians and chineses inmigrants had converted the neighborhoodin a place were the indian locals were mixed with the indians restaurants and the magrebies places.



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Streets were it is situated.
"La Juderia de Lavapies" is found in the centre of Madrid,and it receive the name of a neighborhood of the centre of Madrid, were the majority of their it inhabitants were inmigrants.It houses were very cheap and it streets mofre important were: the street of "La Fe", "Salitre", "Ave Maria", "Sombrerete", "Jesus y Maria" y "Zurita". In what today is known as: The court of the armory of "El Palacio Real".



Century and year of it construction.
"La Juderia de Lavapies" was built in the century XIV, exactly the "Aljama" was rebuilt after the expulsion of the muslims in the year 1931, and it was surrounded by a high wall that closed it doors at the nightfall.