The night has always had rules — and people pushed outside them

A few minutes away, Carrer d'en Robador tells a less celebratory story about nocturnal urban life. Municipal social-history material identifies this street as a long-standing centre of commercial sex in the Barri Xino and documents changing systems of regulation, policing, health control, fines and urban redevelopment. A city can celebrate some night-time activity as culture while defining other activity as disorder. The point is not to turn sex workers into colourful local folklore or to sensationalise a living street. It is to notice how regulation changes geography: practices are tolerated, confined, displaced or made more visible depending on policy. Walk the street respectfully and use the physical narrowness, doorways and proximity to the Filmoteca as evidence of a neighbourhood repeatedly rewritten around people who did not disappear when plans changed.