The street is a hotel with no doors or windows, its roof cluttered with stars. Unbearably hot in the summertime and painfully icy in the wintertime, its dirt and filth are permanent fixtures. Unexpected visits from neighbors abound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While the official figures herald 25,000 homeless people in Spain, NGOs wield less optimistic figures and in 2013 the number of persons suffering from severe or absolute housing exclusion was 40.000. Called vagrants or homeless, these people are much more than that. They are citizens who have remained on the sidelines of a full life due to a lack of opportunities. They are invisible citizens who don\u2019t want to be news and who live in the world\u2019s oldest and most famous yet least well-known hotel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Hotel under the Stars is a hotel where any of us may one day be guests. And the bill sometimes costs one\u2019s life. It\u2019s an invisible hotel for invisible people. A hotel with no bellboy or reception where the lifts never go up anywhere but only go down \u2013 directly to hell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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