Villaverde is one of the 21 districts of the city of

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Geography and history

The municipality was absorbed by

in the 1950s as a result of the plans that the

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government made to simplify the structure of big city administrations. Since then, is a

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. 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

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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

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, Castile-León, ...) and immigrants attracted by the cheap housing prices. The district is administratively divided into five wards ('): * Butarque * Los Ángeles * Los Rosales * San Cristóbal de los Ángeles * Villaverde Alto * El Espinillo

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