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Though apartment living was already common in Madrid and Barcelona in the late nineteenth century, the piso is indelibly associated with the huge migrations from the countryside to the provincial capitals after the Spanish Civil War.—Adrian Nathan West, The New York Review of Books, 7 Sep. 2022 Central to the Spanish ideal of stability is the piso, what Americans call a condo.—Adrian Nathan West, The New York Review of Books, 7 Sep. 2022 After paying the piso and traveling through Coahuila,Diaz still would have faced a 14-hour drive south to Michoacán.—Beth Warren, The Courier-Journal, 26 Aug. 2021
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