The tramline that snakes through Parla passes an Extremaduran food shop dense with chorizo, cheese, ham and honey, a billboard for a real estate company catering to the Chinese community and the Titanic grocery shop, which offers couscous and not just halal meat but “100% halal meat”.
On either side of its winding tracks, on shopfronts, on faces, on clothes and in the conversations overheard on the streets, is written the story of the many and varied communities that have fuelled Parla’s growth over the past 50 years, transforming this small town half an hour from Madrid into a commuter sprawl of 128,000 people. Despite the town’s proximity to the capital, many of its residents feel overlooked and forgotten by successive central, regional and local governments.
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