Getafe Facts for Kids

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Getafe is a city 15 km south of Madrid, in the Community of Madrid, Spain. 158,363 people live there. It has great commercial and industrial activity and many mass media. In Getafe there is a university, a military air base, and has a football team in the first division of the Spanish's League.

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Ruins of the Roman villa of La Torrecilla.
Engraving of Getafe published in 1878 in La Academia: revista de la cultura hispano portuguesa, latino-Americana.
Getafe's Gran Teatro (Great Theater) at the end of the 19th century.
Cerro Buenavista, or Buenavista hill, the area of highest elevation in the Getafe municipality at 704 meters (2309 ft). There is a deposit of water on the summit of the hill from the canal of Isabel II.
Cerro de los Ángeles
The bank of the Manzanares River.
Lakes of Perales. Because so few remain, these four small lakes are protected.
A park in Getafe on a snowy day.
View from the Cerro de los Ángeles from the middle of the eastern municipal border. Visible are pine trees, olive trees, and extensive wheat fields.
Modern building in the Getafe Norte neighborhood.
Iglesia de Perales del Río; one of the oldest buildings in the city.
Hermitage del Cerro de los Ángeles.
Central plaza in the Getafe Centro neighbourhood.
Evening in the La Alhóndiga neighbourhood.
Houses in Sector III neighbourhood.
Planes at the Getafe Air Force Base.
Public pool of Getafe Norte. The Cerro de los Ángeles in the background.
Train and metro station Getafe Central.
Graph showing the population of Getafe during the 20th and 21st centuries.
Pedestrian portion of the Calle Madrid, one of the most commercial and central streets in the city.
Natural surroundings of the Getafe municipal district. The hills of the Marañosa can be seen in the distance.
Getafe's City hall.
Escuelas Pías, a center of religious education founded in 1609
Façade of the Hospitalillo de San José.
Getafe bullring.
Monument of The Angels.
Tables in a restaurant in central Getafe on a summer night.
Madrid Street, commercial area.
Coliseum Alfonso Pérez.
The central neighborhoods of Getafe, with the Cerro de los Ángeles as backdrop. The following are visible from left to right: the tower of town hall (a white tower), the Cathedral of Our Lady of Magdalena, and single family homes from the Sector III neighborhood. Photograph taken from Buenavista hill.

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