The railway wound became a square

Start where a transport problem was eventually converted into public space. Zaragoza's municipal history describes the Madrid–Zaragoza–Alicante railway crossing the Madrid road as a serious barrier between Delicias and the centre. A level crossing appeared in 1911 and was enlarged, but the conflict between trains and everyday movement did not really disappear. The city says the fissure was finally removed in 2002, when the railway was buried and Plaza de la Ciudadanía was created. Stand in the open square and imagine the opposite condition: gates, tracks and waiting. The important detail is absence. What you can no longer see explains why this public space exists here at all.