Alcalá de Henares facts for kids

Localitation Alcalá de Henares

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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  The Plaza de Cervantes, shown here in the winter, is the social center of Alcalá de Henares. Visible is the statue of Miguel de Cervantes, the city's most famous native.

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  Tower of the Old Castle of Alcalá La Vieja

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  Statues of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza outside Cervantes' birthplace

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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 plateresque façade of the old Alcalá 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, illustrating 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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  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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  Tower of Santa María la Mayor