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Flag of the Community of Madrid
Flag of the Community of Madrid
Escudo de la Comunidad de Madrid (oficial)
Coat of arms of the Community of Madrid

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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  • Comunidad de Madrid relieve location map

    Relief map of the Community of Madrid

  • Circo y cima de Peñalara1

    Peñalara: The Guadarrama mountain range's highest peak

  • Capra pyrenaica, La Pedriza, Madrid, España, 2016 09

    The Iberian ibex (Capra pyrenaica) in La Pedriza

  • Summer is coming - Se acerca el Verano (Salamandra salamandra under assault) (7655566054)

    A fire salamander in the laguna de los Pájaros [es]

  • Psammodromus algirus 2601

    An Algerian sand racer in Manzanares el Real

  • Hayedo de Montejo y su especial Microclima

    The summer drought is characteristic of the Madrid region's climate. Montejo Beech [es] (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.

  • Arganda del Rey (39301482444)

    Olive tree orchards in Arganda del Rey

  • Campaniforme Ciempozuelos (M.A.N. Inv.32252) 01

    Prehistoric vessel from Ciempozuelos, exhibited at the National Archaeological Museum of Spain in Madrid

  • ComplutumEstaciones

    A mosaic of the House of Dionysus in Complutum

  • Muralla y barbacana de Buitrago del Lozoya

    City walls of Buitrago del Lozoya

  • España - Manzanares El Real - Castillo de Manzanares el Real 003

    Castle of Manzanares el Real

  • Dibujo madrid 1562

    Panoramic view of Madrid, a 16th-century work by Anton van den Wyngaerde

  • Felipe II, con sus arquitectos, inspecciona las obras de El Escorial (Museo del Prado)

    Philip II supervises the works on El Escorial (by Luca Giordano)

  • Fabricación de tinajones en Colmenar de Oreja (Ulpiano Checa

    Manufacturing of big clay pots in Colmenar de Oreja (by Ulpiano Checa)

  • Canal de Isabel II. Puente-acueducto de la Sima, Charles Clifford

    Construction of the bridge-aqueduct of the chasm, part of the Canal de Isabel II in 1854 (by Charles Clifford)

  • Ericsson factory in Getafe, Spain - Manufacturing of telephone lines (1924)

    Female workers in a phone-line factory managed by Ericsson in Getafe (1924)

  • Edificio de la Diputación Provincial de Madrid 1939

    Ruins of the headquarters of the provincial deputation in 1939

  • Anochecer en Las Tablas (17654810741)

    Sunset in Las Tablas in 2015

  • Distrito Telefónica (Madrid) 17

    Distrito Telefónica, the main headquarters of Telefónica, one of the multinational corporations located in the region

  • Estabilizador horizontal Airbus A330-340

    Airbus A330-A340 horizontal stabilizer near the Getafe Airbus factory

  • MADRID 060126 MXALX 067

    Madrid Trade Fair

  • MADRID 060505 MXALX 100

    Coslada Dry Port

  • IES Palas Atenea 1

    Secondary school in Torrejón de Ardoz

  • Facultad de Medicina, Complutense University of Madrid, 2016, 06

    Faculty of Medicine of the Complutense University of Madrid, in the Ciudad Universitaria campus

  • Madrid - Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa (CBMSO) 1

    The Severo Ochoa Centre for Molecular Biology, in the campus of the Autonomous University of Madrid

  • UPM-CeSViMa-SupercomputadorMagerit

    The Magerit supercomputer, located in the Supercomputing and Visualization Center of Madrid, part of the Technical University of Madrid and located in Pozuelo de Alarcón

  • Terminal T-4 Madrid - Barajas Airport (8520153689)b

    Barajas Airport

  • Parla - Estación de tren de cercanías 1

    Commuter rail station in Parla

  • Estación de Madrid Puerta de Atocha, tren AVE con destino Valencia, España. Renfe serie 112

    AVE trains in Atocha

  • (Bandera CAM) Banderas de Madrid y España (4487660760) (cropped)

    Flag of the Community of Madrid waving at the outdoors of a building

  • Queso de Campo Real tierno

    Cheese from Campo Real [es]

  • Procesión de la Virgen de Gracia en la Plaza de la Cebada. Museo de Historia de Madrid (cropped)

    Catholic procession of the Virgen de Gracia at the plaza de la Cebada, Madrid (c. 1741)

  • Gigriraja Swami 1998 Madrid

    Hare Krishna guru Giriraja Swami singing at the 1998 Ratha Yatra festival in Madrid

  • Jehovah's Witnesses Madrid

    Jehovah's Witnesses literature in Madrid

  • Actos oficiales del 2 de mayo - Acto cívico militar - 34038541490

    Official feasts of the 2 de Mayo

  • Padel (1573107558)

    Practice of padel tennis in Madrid

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