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To see a worthwhile part of Madrid that doesn't figure in most tourist guides, take your walking shoes up to Moncloa, a barrio northwest of the center. You'll find few tourists here, but plenty of locals: families with children in strollers, elderly people out for a walk, and lots of students thanks to the proximity to the Universidad Complutense, Madrid's biggest university. The streets are wider here than in the center, and there's plenty of traffic. Moncloa was my old neighborhood and it's a great place, but it's about as different as you can get from Lavapiés.
Katie Goldstein landed in Madrid in 2005, not long after graduating from college in New York City, and quickly fell in love with the Spanish capital. When she's not teaching English around town, she's reporting and writing about her adopted city. She tells more stories about España Profunda on her blog.
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