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The winding warren of streets that makes up Barcelona’s El Raval neighbourhood has been in a constant state of transformation over the past century. What began as a residential area for the city’s port workers became a seedy red-light district, then a centre for Barcelona’s alternative scene. Today it is being smartened up by some serious regeneration efforts but remains something of a mix of all its previous identities, with a healthy smattering of football shirt-selling tourist shops thrown in for good measure.

Only a handful of businesses can…

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