Community of Madrid Facts for Kids

Flag of the Community of Madrid

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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Relief map of the Community of Madrid
Peñalara: The Guadarrama mountain range's highest peak
The Iberian ibex (Capra pyrenaica) in La Pedriza
A fire salamander in the laguna de los Pájaros [es]
An Algerian sand racer in Manzanares el Real
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.
Olive tree orchards in Arganda del Rey
Prehistoric vessel from Ciempozuelos, exhibited at the National Archaeological Museum of Spain in Madrid
A mosaic of the House of Dionysus in Complutum
City walls of Buitrago del Lozoya
Castle of Manzanares el Real
Panoramic view of Madrid, a 16th-century work by Anton van den Wyngaerde
Philip II supervises the works on El Escorial (by Luca Giordano)
Manufacturing of big clay pots in Colmenar de Oreja (by Ulpiano Checa)
Construction of the bridge-aqueduct of the chasm, part of the Canal de Isabel II in 1854 (by Charles Clifford)
Female workers in a phone-line factory managed by Ericsson in Getafe (1924)
Ruins of the headquarters of the provincial deputation in 1939
Sunset in Las Tablas in 2015
Distrito Telefónica, the main headquarters of Telefónica, one of the multinational corporations located in the region
Airbus A330-A340 horizontal stabilizer near the Getafe Airbus factory
Madrid Trade Fair
Coslada Dry Port
Secondary school in Torrejón de Ardoz
Faculty of Medicine of the Complutense University of Madrid, in the Ciudad Universitaria campus
The Severo Ochoa Centre for Molecular Biology, in the campus of the Autonomous University of Madrid
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
Barajas Airport
Commuter rail station in Parla
AVE trains in Atocha
Flag of the Community of Madrid waving at the outdoors of a building
Cheese from Campo Real [es]
Catholic procession of the Virgen de Gracia at the plaza de la Cebada, Madrid (c. 1741)
Hare Krishna guru Giriraja Swami singing at the 1998 Ratha Yatra festival in Madrid
Jehovah's Witnesses literature in Madrid
Official feasts of the 2 de Mayo
Practice of padel tennis in Madrid

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