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Madrid ( mə-DRID, Spanish: [maˈðɾið] ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and its monocentric metropolitan area is the second-largest in the EU. The municipality covers 604.3 km2 (233.3 sq mi) geographical area. Madrid lies on the River Manzanares in the central part of the Iberian Peninsula at about 650 meters above mean sea level. The capital city of both Spain and the surrounding autonomous community of Madrid (since 1983), it is also the political, economic, and cultural centre of the country. The climate of Madrid features hot summers and cool winters. The Madrid urban agglomeration has the second-largest GDP in the European Union and its influence in politics, education, entertainment, environment, media, fashion, science, culture, and the arts all contribute to its status as one of the world's major global cities. Due to its economic output, high standard of living, and market size, Madrid is considered the major financial centre and the leading economic hub of the Iberian Peninsula and of Southern Europe. The metropolitan area hosts major Spanish companies such as Telefónica, Iberia, BBVA and FCC. It concentrates the bulk of banking operations in the country and it is the Spanish-speaking city generating the largest amount of webpages. For innovation, Madrid is ranked 19th in the world and 7th in Europe from 500 cities, in the 2022–2023 annual analysts Innovation Cities Index, published by 2ThinkNow.Madrid houses the headquarters of the UN's World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), the Ibero-American General Secretariat (SEGIB), the Organization of Ibero-American States (OEI), and the Public Interest Oversight Board (PIOB). It also hosts major international regulators and promoters of the Spanish language: the Standing Committee of the Association of Spanish Language Academies, headquarters of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE), the Instituto Cervantes and the Foundation of Urgent Spanish (FundéuRAE). Madrid organises fairs such as FITUR, ARCO, SIMO TCI and the Madrid Fashion Week. Madrid is home to two world-famous football clubs, Real Madrid and Atlético Madrid. While Madrid possesses modern infrastructure, it has preserved the look and feel of many of its historic neighbourhoods and streets. Its landmarks include the Plaza Mayor, the Royal Palace of Madrid; the Royal Theatre with its restored 1850 Opera House; the Buen Retiro Park, founded in 1631; the 19th-century National Library building (founded in 1712) containing some of Spain's historical archives; many national museums, and the Golden Triangle of Art, located along the Paseo del Prado and comprising three art museums: Prado Museum, the Reina Sofía Museum, a museum of modern art, and the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, which complements the holdings of the other two museums. Cibeles Palace and Fountain has become one of the monument symbols of the city. The mayor is José Luis Martínez-Almeida from the People's Party. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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Narratives set in Madrid 223
- Don Carlos
- La Gran Vía
- The Club Dumas
- The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
- El barberillo de Lavapiés
- The Sun over Breda
- The Captain Alatriste
- El barquillero
- The Fencing Master
- The Flanders Panel
- Noche de guerra en el Museo del Prado
- Cuatro corazones con freno y marcha atrás
- Un día de cólera
- A Heart So White
- The Monk
- El hombre que mató a Durruti
- enter a label
- Captain Alatriste
- The Hive
- Tiempo de silencio
- The Tree of Knowledge
- The Time in Between
- Quattro amici
- 7 de julio
- La venganza de la Petra
- Atlas de geografía humana
- Bailén
- Bajarse al moro
- Barba Azul y sus mujeres
- Beatriz y los cuerpos celestes
- Blanca por fuera y Rosa por dentro
- Capital de la gloria
- Cinematógrafo Nacional
- Como mejor están las rubias es con patatas
- Cánovas
- Episodios Nacionales: De Cartago a Sagunto
- Tell me who I am
- Don Quintín, el amargao
- La camisa
- Episodios Nacionales: El 19 de marzo y el 2 de mayo
- El género ínfimo
- El alma se serena
- El amigo Melquíades
- El aprendiz de amante
- El barbero de Sevilla
Editions published in Madrid 35
- Conveni Marc Europeu sobre Cooperació Transfronterera entre comunitats o autoritats territorials
- Adela y Matilde
- The ridiculous idea not to see you again
- El Público
- Premios del Ayuntamiento de Madrid: 1901-1918
- Poeta de guardia
- El caserón de la loca
- Ni tiro, ni veneno, ni navaja
- Diccionario biográfico internacional
- Arquitectura Viva
- Poesías completas
- El Correo de la Moda
- Diccionario de la música y los músicos (1985)
- Historia y crítica de las exposiciones nacionales de bellas artes celebradas en España
- Diccionario histórico de la Compañía de Jesús
- Mujeres: Vidas paralelas
- Monumentos Arquitectónicos de España
- Enciclopedia erótica del cómic
- La Ilustración. Álbum de las Damas
- The weighted vote
- International Law, Community and European Union
- The United Kingdom in Europe
- Three delights rice: sex, race and gender
- China's great dream
- China 2050
- Beyond success and failure
- Bernarda y Poncia
- Francoist stories
- The trade of uniting
- The foundations of European unity
- The transformation of the apple as a morphological type
- Orcasitas: binding memories of a neighborhood
- Marcelo
- The first days
- Historia de la conquista de Mexico
Authors educated at Madrid 1
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