The flow of migration to Madrid, attracted chiefly by the city’s expanding industrial belt in the 1950s and ’60s, has created a modern population representative of the entire Spanish country. A traditional nickname for the Madrileños is gatos (“cats”), originally coined in the Middle Ages as a reference to the ability of local troops to scale castle walls. It would be no less apt as a reference to the local lifestyle and the late hours kept by the city’s inhabitants, although keeping late hours is also common in other parts of Spain, especially in the heat of summer. People eat ...(100 of 4535 words)