Alcalá de Henares facts for kids
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.
Images for kids
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Miguel de Cervantes (the author of) Don Quijote (Don Quixote) illustration by Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré.
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Roman mosaic (part of the archeological ensemble of Complutum) representing the four seasons from the House of Bacchus.
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Tower of Tenorio of the Archbishop's Palace of Alcalá.
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The western façade of the Cathedral of the Santos Niños, illustrating a "florid" or "Isabelline Gothic" style.
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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.
