Vallekas, a water Utopia

Summer 1981, several young Spaniards from a poor neighbourhood in Madrid were suffering from a heatwave. That’s why they started to throw buckets of water in the streets and at each other. Little did they know, the following year, the streets of their district Vallecas, self-proclaimed they were now a seaport and a Naval Battle began.

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