Community of Madrid facts for kids
Community of Madrid (Spanish: Comunidad de Madrid) is one of the seventeen autonomous communities (regions) of Spain. It is in centre of the country, and the Iberian Peninsula. Its capital and largest city is Madrid.
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A fire salamander in the laguna de los Pájaros
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The summer drought is characteristic of the Madrid region's climate. Montejo Beech
(part of the transnational Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe world heritage site) is a relict forest featuring a particular case of microclimate, allowing for Eurosiberian species that do not grow in the region in normal conditions. -
Philip II supervises the works on El Escorial (by Luca Giordano)
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Distrito Telefónica, the main headquarters of Telefónica, one of the multinational corporations located in the region
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Faculty of Medicine of the Complutense University of Madrid, in the Ciudad Universitaria campus
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