Madrid is not only the capital but also capital of the province and autonomous community of Madrid.
Important points include the famous cultural and tourist Prado Museum, Thyssen Bornemisza Museum, Reina Sofia Art Center (where Pablo Picasso's Guernica is), Cason del Buen Retiro, the Royal Palace, the Templo Debod, Monasterio de las Descalzas Reales, the Puerta del Sol , Parque de Retiro, and Chueca, the gay district.
Madrid is administratively divided into 21 districts, which in turn in different neighborhoods.
Other nearby towns are popular for day trips from Madrid, including Toledo, Segovia, Ávila, Aranjuez, Alcalá de Henares, the monastery and palace complex of El Escorial and Santa Cruz del Valle de los caída.
Barajas International Airport is Spain's largest airport, located in Madrid.
Airport began service in 1928.
Currently has four terminals and has a maximum operating capacity of one hundred twenty flights per hour.
Rising costs of approximately $ 1.5 billion, and having a capacity of 35 million tourists a year, Barajas airport is the biggest project of the company Stirka Harbour + Partners.
Pillars, painted in rainbow colors to facilitate orientation, are illuminated by natural light that enters the room.
Also, extremely explicit billboards inform passengers about the time needed to reach the desired terminal.
Torrejón de Ardoz is a community in the autonomous community of Madrid, Spain. It is located 20 km east of Madrid, on the A-2 (Madrid-Barcelona motorway). It is essentially a city, consisting mostly of apartments, a large mall and a park containing models with numerous famous European landmarks.
City of Alcala de Henares is a city in Spain, located 35 km northeast of Madrid. The city has a population of about 200,000 inhabitants, the second largest region after the Spanish capital itself.
Alcala de Henares city center remains essentially a medieval city with many cobblestone streets, historical, Cervantes is inconjutat Market (famous Plaza de Cervantes), crossed by a pedestrian street. One of the most important streets of Alcalá de Henares is "Calle del Cardenal Cisneros". The city hosts a large population of international students at the university because of this.
