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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Roman mosaic of the four seasons, the House of Bacchus, Complutum
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View of the town by Anton van den Wyngaerde (1565).
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Calle Mayor, c. 1910
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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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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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Oidor Church
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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
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See also
In Spanish: Alcalá de Henares para niños
