Legends+and+Stories+about+Madrid

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**1.Madrileños Gatos**
//Muhammad I founded Madrid in the year 852 and built a wall that sorrounded Madrid.Later many people wanted to conquered the city,but anyone couldn´t.In the year 1085 the Christians went to Madrid to conquer it and one of their warriors started climbing the wall.He climbed so quikly that everyone said that he looked like a cat,then he changed the muslim flag for the christian one.From that day until now we say that the people that are born in Madrid are cats.But anyone climbed any wall like him.//

**2.Ponciano Olivares:**
//Between [|Amaniel]´s and [|San Berardino]´s streets in the XVI century there was a forest that belonged to Lope de Amaniel.In this forest lived a person called Ponciano Olivares that owned a house.He hunted many w////ild boars, he nailed the heads out inhis garden.The people of the village started to call the forest Ponciano´s forest.When the forest dissapeared one of the streets was called Ponciano Olivares Street but later it was called only Ponciano.//

**3.El Anarquista:**
//In the year 1906 were a big comity, the wedding of Victoria Eugenia and Alfonso XIII that passed through the [|Mayor street].Sudenly a person in a building threw a bomb to the comity and it clogged with electric wires causing lots of victi////ms but the kings were allright.Then a conmemorative monument was placed there.//

**4.Calle de la Esperanza:**
//One calm night, Esperanza, a widow who lived in a house near the// //casa de campo// //in Madrid, heard some strong noises that woke up her.When she opened the door, she found a scared man who was escaping from someone.Esperanza invited him to enter in the house and once there he told her that he was the// [|captain Beltrán Duguesclin]//, the one who killed// //Pedro I de Castilla// //in Montiel.She helped him.In Madrid the citizens supported,and when they knew that Esperanza welcomed Beltrán Duguesclin, the man who had killed their king, they burned Esperanza´s house.She went to another place to live and her property was bought by the city of Madrid, and in her honor, that place was called the street of Hope (la calle de la Esperanza).//

**5.The Underground of Madrid:**
//The subway of Madrid have two ghostly histories. The first one happened in the year 1920 when the reform started in The station Tirso de Molina, the workers heared many voices asking for help in the other part of the wall.Later the workers demolished the wall and found a skeleton, After these success the neighborings heared screams. The parapsychologists declare the voices where of spirits, that lived in the hermitage that was there in the past.The second one was in the 50´s between the sations of// [|atocha] //and Puente de vallecas, some womans that passed in these two stations were injured with a scalped, any woman saw anybody near them. All the people talked of the scalped ghost.//