Obras...

I stayed in a hotel near the Plaza de la Puerta del Sol, in, I believe, the Los Austrias barrio, with somewhat of a Moorish influence(so I read) in the building styles and streets. The Plaza, unfortunately, is undergoing 'obras', or construction. It seems that the Spanish have obras going on during the majority of the year so despite the influx of summer tourists and the hundreds of people who
pack the streets at night, they just continue working, everywhere on everything, statues, fountains, plazas, subways, buildings, roads, sidewalks, you name it, it is torn up somewhere.