Virgen de la Torre

A neighbor tells us that this area of houses, despite being romanticized by many, has problems such as dampness and old infrastructure. He also tells us the history of the houses: this neighborhood is called Virgen de la Torre, was inaugurated in 1955, and he moved in in 1998. Part of the neighborhood was demolished because the construction of Line 1 of the metro damaged its structures, but this part survived and has now been declared a historic district (he claims to not understand why because the houses are very old and dirty). He also tells us about the typical low, single-story houses, which once defined the rest of the district but of which only a few remain today. In this neighborhood, the yellow houses are low-rise, two or three stories high, in linear blocks with ground floor dwellings, uniform proportions, simple facades, and gabled roofs that give them a character somewhere between rural and urban. The repetitive building system creates a sequence of squares and gardens.