Villaverde | |
Settlement Type: | District of Madrid |
Area Total Km2: | 20.29 |
Population: | 126,802 |
Population Density Km2: | 6249 |
Postal Code: | 28032 |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Spain |
Subdivision Type1: | Auton. community |
Subdivision Name1: | Madrid |
Subdivision Type2: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name2: | Madrid |
Leader Title: | Concejal |
Blank Name Sec1: | Madrid district number |
Blank Info Sec1: | 17 |
Blank Name Sec2: | Address of council |
Villaverde is one of the 21 districts of the city of Madrid, Spain.
The municipality was absorbed by Madrid in the 1950s as a result of the plans that the Franco government made to simplify the structure of big city administrations. Since then, is a district. It was in those years when it experimented a massive growth caused by the rural flight in Spain. This is the reason that made Villaverde a typical working class neighbourhood.
This condition leaves a heavy footprint in the district, because it has conditioned the current population composition, with many retired people (some of them returning to their towns in Andalusia, Castile-León, ...) and immigrants attracted by the cheap housing prices.
The district is administratively divided into five wards (Spanish; Castilian: barrios):