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The Madrid Metro (Spanish: Metro de Madrid) is a rapid transit system serving the city of Madrid, capital of Spain. The system is the 14th longest rapid transit system in the world, with a total length of 293 km (182 mi). Its growth between 1995 and 2007 put it among the fastest-growing networks in the world at the time.
The Palacio de Santa Cruz or Palace of the Holy Cross is a baroque building in central Madrid, Spain. It now houses the Spanish Foreign Ministry. It was used as a jail until the reign of Philip IV of Spain, when it was converted into a palace. Construction was commissioned in 1629 by Philip IV to house both courts and jail facilities.
ISSN 0567-560X – via Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes. Goitia Cruz, Aitor (2006). "Diseños de Sabatini para las puertas de Madrid" (PDF). Anales del Instituto de Estudios Madrileños (46). Madrid: Instituto de Estudios Madrileños: 195– 228. ISSN 0584-6374 – via Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
The metropolitan city area also has several minor basilicas: the Basílica Ex-Catedral de San Isidro (the former pro-cathedral), the Basílica de San Lorenzo (a World Heritage Site, in El Escorial), the Basílica de la Asunción de Nuestra Señora (dedicated to the Assumption, in Colmenar Viejo), the Basílica de la Concepción de Nuestra ...
Road markings for Madrid Central, indicating the entrance to its boundaries. Madrid Central is a low-emission zone located in the center of Madrid. It was inaugurated on November 30, 2018. The project has been something of a political football and as at 2024 has been severely curtained by a court ruling. It is aimed at reducing pollution from ...
The tone is grief-stricken and tender, with Catullus trying to give the best gift he had to bestow (a poem) on his brother, who was taken prematurely.
Torre Caja Madrid, was headquarters of Caja Madrid, situated in Fuencarral-El Pardo, Madrid. Caja Madrid was the fourth largest financial group in Spain, with a turn-over of 180,700 million euros in 2005. It had 12,800 employees in a national network of 1,900 offices, and four foreign branches in Miami, Lisbon, Dublin and Vienna.