| Madrid is the capital of Spain and of Madrid | | | | 22°C. The locals sum up their climate as nine |
| province. It lies in central Spain on the Manzanares | | | | months of winter and another 3 months of hell. |
| River and is almost in the exact geographic centre | | | | It is the nation's chief transportation and |
| of the country. It is the focus of its own | | | | administrative centre. Its commercial and industrial |
| autonomous region. | | | | life developed very rapidly after the 1890s and |
| Madrid is relatively young when compared to the | | | | today it is nation's chief transportation and |
| other great Spanish cities such as Seville and | | | | administrative centre, rivalled only by Barcelona. |
| Valencia and so it lacks the traditions of the | | | | Besides it's many manufacturing industries, Madrid |
| ancient Andalusian and Castilian towns. It lies on a | | | | are foremost as a banking, education, printing, |
| vast open plateau and is subject to extremes of | | | | publishing, tourism, and film production centre. |
| temperature, the daily variation is sometimes | | | | |