Hallazgos

What does not add up between the official documents of El Rastro: six contradictions, each with its sources, its figures and the date it was checked. This site holds them up instead of hiding them, and no page claims more than these sources give.

The six, figure against figure

On the left, what one city document says; on the right, what another from the same authority says. Below, where each figure comes from and when it was checked.

How many stalls El Rastro has2,186versus1,200Stall register, cartography of 2022
Dataset entry, checked on August 23, 2026And two more answers, also official: 3,500 in the 2000 ordinance, which is a legal ceiling and not a count, and 1,362 in the 2025 sector report. The 41 annual BOAM listings give none.Read the finding The plan draws Sector F where it no longer is2022versus2023Register cartography, dated January 1, 2022
The decrees, BOAM 9322 and 9345, checked on August 23, 2026The new positions are in no open dataset, so the official plan, and this site's, draw 300 stalls where they no longer are.Read the finding Five official lists of streets that do not match18versus17Stall register, cartography of 2022
Geoportal, Zona Rastro layer, checked on August 23, 2026And three more lists: the 2000 ordinance with no figure, Grupo 5.º of the fee schedule with 16 streets, and the dataset entry with 17 street sections. No two of them agree.Read the finding 24 authorized stalls with no fee band24versus0Stall register, cartography of 2022
Fiscal ordinance, Grupo 5.º, 2026 fee scheduleThe document that sets what a stall pays does not name the two streets where the register authorizes 24. We have not found what rate they are charged at.Read the finding Six street markets of Madrid with a broken districtEmbajadoresversusDistrictNeighborhood field, dataset 202105-0-mercadillos
District field, checked on August 23, 2026, refreshed dailyAnyone grouping the dataset by its district field loses 6 street markets, the city's biggest among them.Read the finding Zero Rastro vacancies across 41 documents41versus0Annual BOAM listings, checked on August 23, 2026
Rastro vacancies, 2000 Rastro ordinance, article 17Other street markets in the district do declare vacancies in the same documents. The draw the rule requires has no public list to work on.Read the finding

How something lands here

Two documents from the same authority saying incompatible things, quoted with the date they were checked. Conclusions the documents do not give are not published: zero vacancies does not prove an irregular allocation, and its page says so.