Madrid is the capital of Spain, the largest city and most populous country with more than three million people, reaching six million if you count the metropolitan area, which is located in the central zone of the Iberian Peninsula.

Although there are documented prehistoric remains found near the Manzanares River, it is considered that the city of Madrid was built by Muslims before the ninth century under the name of Magerit to control the passage of the Sierra de Guadarrama.

Madrid has a continental Mediterranean climate with cold winters at times can exceed -15 º and warm summers with temperatures above 35 ° C, with mean annual temperature near 13 degrees.

The main attractions Madrid boasts historic buildings of the fifteenth to the nineteenth given his past as a hegemonic power in Europe and America after the discovery in 1492. Include the Royal Palace, the Palace of Aranjuez, Alcala Gate, the main plaza, the Puerta del Sol, Plaza East, Plaza Cibeles and Neptune, the Gran Via, also called the "Broadway of Madrid, the famous as "Madrid de los Austrias", the Almudena Cathedral, the home of Campo, Retiro Park, Crystal Palace, Museo del Prado, the Reina Sofia Museum, Thyssen Bornemisza Museum, Santiago Bernabeu Stadium and majestic Monastery of San Lorenzo del Escorial.

Another major tourist attractions that Madrid has is its cuisine with plenty of bars and pubs scattered around the old town where you can enjoy a drink accompanied by a delicious aperitif as corns from Madrid, the fried calamari, the patatas bravas, the Madrid stew, snails and of course the ham with a good fresh pitcher of sangria.

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