Avenida de Asturias

The Avenida de Asturias ("Avenue of Asturias") is a street in northwest Madrid, located in the district of Tetuán. A relatively recent urban development, opened in 2000, it hosts a multitudinous Sunday flea market since 2005.

Avenida de Asturias

Width	58 m (190 ft)
Location	Madrid, Spain
East end	Plaza de Castilla
West end	Calle de Sinesio Delgado

History and description

Twilight view from El Pilar neighborhood featuring the Puerta de Europa towers at the background.

It straddles along a E–W thalweg separating La Ventilla and Valdeacederas; with a difference in level between the maximum level at plaza de Castilla and the minimum level at the Paseo de la Dirección of about 32 metres.[1] The avenue, that starts in the plaza de Castilla and ends at its junction with the calle de Sinesio Delgado,[2] also links with the Paseo de la Dirección and the calle de Ginzo de Limia as major junctions.[3]

Its construction was part of the wider project for the reform of La Ventilla area, constituting the key axis of the latter.[4] The plot over which the street was built (along the very path of the former "calle de los Curtidos"),[5] was an area featuring high levels of urban decay.[6]

The reform of the area was passed through the modification of the 1985 Plan General de Ordenación Urbana (PGOU).[7] Several buildings works were carried out by the Instituto de la Vivienda de Madrid (IVIMA),[8] and the new street, with a total width of 58 metres,[9] was inaugurated in 2000.[10] The new housing has been however described as rather "impersonal".[11]

The Sunday flea market (mercadillo) installed in the street in 2005 is one of the biggest flea markets in the city.[12][13]

References

Citations

1. Díaz Mauriño 1996, pp. 25-26. sfn error: no target: CITEREFDíaz_Mauriño1996 (help)
2. "Callejero oficial del Ayuntamiento de Madrid. 2015" (PDF). 58. Ayuntamiento de Madrid.
3. Palacios García 2007, pp. 198, 209.
4. Palacios García 2007, pp. 208-209.
5. Aguirre 2001; PalaciosGarcía 2007, p. 198 harvnb error: no target: CITEREFPalaciosGarcía2007 (help)
6. Palacios García 2007, pp. 191-192.
7. Palacios García 2007, p. 196.
8. "Madrid. Plan de Barrio. Almenara" (PDF). 4. Ayuntamiento de Madrid.
9. Palacios García 2007, p. 198.
10. Delgado 2007.
11. Sánchez Ramos, Bárbara (2014-12-04). "Las dos aceras de Tetuán". El País (in Spanish). ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 2020-02-19.
12. días, Tetuán 30 (2006-03-01). "El Rastrillo y la avenida de Asturias: un binomio perfecto". tetuan30dias.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-02-19.
13. "Mercadillos, outlets y 'pop up stores' I - Sibaritisimo". www.republica.com. Retrieved 2020-02-19.

Bibliography

• Aguirre, Begoña (2 June 2001). "La remodelación del barrio de La Ventilla finalizará en 2002, con 13 años de retraso". El País.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link) CS1 maint: date and year (link)
• Delgado, Elena (29 January 2007). "Del barrio trémulo a la nueva Ventilla". Madridiario.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link) CS1 maint: date and year (link)
• Díaz-Mauriño, Francisco (1996). "La avenida de Asturias como eje de renovación urbana" (PDF). Revista de Urbanismo COAM. Madrid: Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Madrid (29): 23–31. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 June 2017.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Palacios García, Antonio J. (2007). "El proceso de renovación-sustitución en La Ventilla (Madrid). La aplicación tardía del programa de barrios en remodelación" (PDF). Nimbus. La Cañada de San Urbano: Universidad de Almería (19–20): 191–213. ISSN 1139-7136. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 June 2017.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)