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Five official lists of streets that do not match, at El Rastro de Madrid

Five city documents list the streets of El Rastro and no two of them agree. This site derives 18 streets from the stall register; the ordinance, the fee schedule, the geoportal and the street-market dataset entry each draw a slightly different market.

The balconies above the stalls of El Rastro de Madrid
Stall register18streets with their stalls one by one: this site'sCartography of 2022
versus
Geoportal, Zona Rastro layer17polygons, six with a code that is not the register's sector, and one street twiceChecked on August 23, 2026

The five lists

Each document and the streets it names
DocumentStreetsDetail
Stall register, 202218This site's list: each one with its page in streets.
2000 Rastro ordinance, article 20no figureIt lists the market's streets and names Arganzuela and Bastero only as streets to walk through, with no selling.
Fiscal ordinance, Grupo 5.º16Three fee bands that split roadway from sidewalk. It leaves out Casino and Embajadores: that gap is another finding.
Zona Rastro layer of the geoportal1717 polygons, six with a two-letter code (MN, RC, PC, RB, CA, VR) that is not the register's sector, and Mira el Río Baja appears twice. Checked on August 23, 2026.
Street-market dataset entry1717 street sections, and it writes both "plaza Campillo del Nuevo Mundo" and "plaza Campillo del Mundo Nuevo" in the same description. Checked on August 23, 2026.

Why it matters

Any per-street figure depends on which list is used. This site's come from the stall register, the only one of the five that carries the stalls one by one; when another list disagrees, the affected page says so and it is logged here.

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About this page

A finding lands here when two documents from the same authority say incompatible things. The contradiction is published with its sources and the date it was checked, and nothing more: conclusions the documents do not give are not written.