Alcalá de Henares facts for kids

Localitation Alcalá de Henares

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Alcalá de Henares is a city in the Community of Madrid, Spain. It is thirty kilometres from Madrid. It has about 200,000 people. There is a university. Miguel de Cervantes, an important Spanish writer, the author of the "Don Quixote", was born there.

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  Roman mosaic of the four seasons, the House of Bacchus, Complutum

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  Tower of the Old Castle of Alcalá La Vieja

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  View of the town by Anton van den Wyngaerde (1565).

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  Alcalá de Henares as seen by the Sentinel-2 of the European Space Agency.

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  The rectorado of the University of Alcalá

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  Cloister part of the university

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  Laredo Palace

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  Cathedral of the Santos Niños

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  The western façade of the Cathedral of the Santos Niños in a "florid" or "Isabelline Gothic" style

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  Cardinal Cisneros' tomb, in the cathedral

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  In the background, the remains of the iglesia de Santa María la Mayor: chapel of the Oidor and tower. The iglesia de Santa María la Mayor was destroyed in a fire during the Spanish Civil War, losing much of the paintings housed. Among the remains that were preserved, these include fragments of the pile where was baptized Miguel de Cervantes.

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  The A-2 highway as it passes through the municipality.

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  Statues of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza outside Cervantes' birthplace