The Community of Madrid is one of the seventeen autonomous communities of Spain. It is located in the centre of the Iberian Peninsula, and of the Central Plateau. Its capital and largest municipality is the City of Madrid, which is also the capital of the country. The Community of Madrid is bounded to the south and east by Castilla–La Mancha and to the north and west by Castile and León. It was formally created in 1983, in order to address the particular status of the City of Madrid as the national capital city and in urban hierarchy. Its limits are those of the province of Madrid, which was until then conventionally included in the historical region of New Castile.
Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport is the main international airport serving Madrid, the capital city of Spain. At 3,050 ha in area, it is the second-largest airport in Europe by physical size behind Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport. In 2019, 61.8 million passengers travelled through Madrid–Barajas, making it the country's busiest airport as well as Europe's fifth-busiest.
Santiago José Carrillo Solares was a Spanish politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of Spain (PCE) from 1960 to 1982.
Torrejón de Ardoz is a municipality of Spain belonging to the Community of Madrid.
San Sebastián de los Reyes is a municipality in the Community of Madrid, Spain. Founded in 1492, it is located 20 kilometres (12 mi) north of Madrid.
Cercanías Madrid is the commuter rail service that serves Madrid, the capital of Spain, and its metropolitan area. It is operated by Cercanías Renfe, the commuter rail division of Renfe, the former monopoly of rail services in Spain. Its total length is 370 km.
Canillejas is an administrative neighborhood (barrio) of Madrid, belonging to the San Blas-Canillejas district. It is named after the former namesake municipality, absorbed by Madrid in 1949. It has an area of 1.598075 km2 (0.617020 sq mi). As of 1 March 2020, it has a population of 29,288.
Arganda del Rey is a municipality and city of Spain located in the Community of Madrid.
Line 5 is a rapid transit line in the Madrid Metro system since 5 June 1968. It is the fourth most used line of the Madrid system, transporting 64 million passengers a year. It is 27 kilometers long.
Ajalvir is a town and municipality in the Autonomous Community of Madrid in central Spain, located 26 kilometres (16 mi) north-east of Madrid and 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) from Alcalá de Henares. It is located in the comarca of Alcalá.
Barajas is a district of the city of Madrid, Spain.
Metropolitano Stadium, also referred to as Riyadh Air Metropolitano for sponsorship reasons, is a stadium in Madrid, Spain. It has been the home stadium of Atlético Madrid since the 2017–18 season. It is located in the Rosas neighbourhood, in the San Blas-Canillejas district.
Algete is a town and municipality in central Spain. It lies in the comarca de Alcalá in the autonomous community of the Community of Madrid. It had a population of 20,767 in 2022. Algete is 30 kilometres (19 mi) northeast of the capital.
Villar del Olmo is a municipality of the Community of Madrid, Spain. It is a town located east of the Community of Madrid, in the District of Las Vegas. Its population is 2219 inhabitants and has an area of 28 km ². Per capita income data for 2003 is 8452 € / person.
The Paracuellos massacres were a series of mass killings of civilians and prisoners of war by the Republican faction of the Spanish Civil War that took place before and during the Siege of Madrid during the early stages of the war. The death toll remains a subject of debate and controversy.
The Madrid Metropolitan Plan is a regional development plan. It was approved on March 1, 1996 and backed with initial parliamentary approval in 1997. It was enforced until 2001, when the new planning law required final approval from the Madrid Assembly in order to be enforced.
Canillejas is a station on Line 5 of the Madrid Metro, located in the barrio Canillejas. It is located in fare Zone A.
The M-50 orbital motorway is the outermost ring road of Madrid and its metropolitan area. It has a length of 85 km (53 mi) and, unlike the other ring roads, doesn't form a closed ring, lacking a connection in the northwest between A-6 and A-1. It runs at an average distance of 13.5 km (8.4 mi) from the Puerta del Sol. It is the longest beltway in the Madrid region, and may be compared with London's M25 motorway and Berlin's A10 beltway.
Torrejón de Ardoz is a municipality in Madrid metropolitan area, Spain.
Ignacio Vázquez Casavilla is a Spanish People's Party (PP) politician. He was elected to the city council of Torrejón de Ardoz in the Community of Madrid in 2007 and was mayor from 2015 to 2023.
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