Discover Peironcely 10, the place where Robert Capa was

In 2010, the investigations of José Latova Fernández-Luna and Alberto Martín Escudero identified the location in which Robert Capa had captured both images: the building located at number 10 of Peironcely Street, in the Entrevías neighborhood of the Madrid district of Puente de Vallecas; just five minutes by train from the nearby Atocha Station.

If you want to travel to the place where Robert Capa was and share his point of view, you just have to take any of the trains on lines C2 (Chamartín–Guadalajara) or C7 (Príncipe Pío–Alcalá de Henares), on the platform number 3 of the Renfe de Atocha Cercanías station. Get off at the next station, Asamblea de Madrid–Entrevías, and from there, walk to the building, which is very close to the train stop.

To stand before the humble working-class housing, in the same place that the famous hungarian photographer was more than eighty years ago, invites us to reflect on the disproportion between the value granted to Capa’s photography and the low social importance given to living testimony of that picture. The image, loaded with historical, documentary and artistic value, is treasured with care in museums and archives, while the building itself and its current occupants continue to suffer like those who inhabited it in the past.