After the news comes a "musical report" on Lavapiés, one of Madrid's oldest and most central neighborhoods. From its start the barrio was "popular," which translates into English as working class or literally "of the people." Lavapiés was first settled in the fifteenth century, outside of the city walls and as part of the trade route to Toledo. In the 1950's and 60's, the mass of Spaniards who converged upon the capital, abandoning their rural villages, found their homes in this neighborhood, while today and over the past twenty years, the population of Lavapiés has been supplied, no longer by internal immigration but by international immigration. From Lavapiés we go to a village in eastern Spain that has started using horses and carts for garbage collection as a cheaper and greener alternative to rubbish trucks.
