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Community of Madrid

The Community of Madrid (Spanish: Comunidad de Madrid [komuniˈðað ðe maˈðɾið] (listen)) is one of the seventeen autonomous communities of Spain. It is located in the centre of the Iberian Peninsula, and of the Central Plateau (Meseta Central). 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, based on the limits of the province of Madrid, which was until then conventionally included in the historical region of New Castile.

Community of Madrid
Comunidad de Madrid
Anthem: "Himno de la Comunidad de Madrid"
"Anthem of the Community of Madrid"
Location of the Community of Madrid within Spain
Coordinates: 40°30′N 3°40′W / 40.500°N 3.667°W / 40.500; -3.667Coordinates: 40°30′N 3°40′W / 40.500°N 3.667°W / 40.500; -3.667
CountrySpain
CapitalCity of Madrid
Government
 • PresidentIsabel Díaz Ayuso (PP)
 • LegislatureAssembly of Madrid
 • ExecutiveGovernment of the Community of Madrid
Area
 • Total8,028.19 km2 (3,099.70 sq mi)
 Ranked 12th, 1.6% of Spain
Population
 (2019)
 • Total6,661,949
 • Density829.62/km2 (2,148.7/sq mi)
 • Pop. rank
3rd
 • Percent
14.2% of Spain
DemonymMadrilenian • Madrilene madrileño • madrileña
GDP
 (PPA; 2021)
 • Per capita€47,041 5.7%[1]
ISO 3166-2
ES-MD
Official languagesSpanish
Statute of Autonomy1 March 1983
HDI (2018)0.941[2]
very high · 1st
Congress seats37 (of 350)
Senate seats11 (of 265)
Websitecomunidad.madrid

The Community of Madrid is the third most populous in Spain with 6,661,949 (2019) inhabitants mostly concentrated in the metropolitan area of Madrid.[3] It is also the most densely populated autonomous community. In absolute terms, Madrid's economy has been, since 2018, slightly bigger in size than that of Catalonia.[4] Madrid has the highest GDP per capita in the country.[5]

It contains three World Heritage Sites: the Monastery and Royal Site of El Escorial, the University and historic centre of Alcalá de Henares, and the cultural landscape of Aranjuez. In addition, the Montejo Beech Forest [es] is part of the transnational Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe world heritage site.

Geography

 

Despite the existence of a large city of 5 million people, the Community of Madrid still retains some remarkably unspoiled and diverse habitats and landscapes. Madrid is home to mountain peaks rising above 2,000 m, holm oak dehesas and low-lying plains. The slopes of the Guadarrama mountain range are cloaked in dense forests of Scots pine and Pyrenean oak. The Lozoya Valley supports a large black (monk) vulture colony, and one of the last bastions of the Spanish imperial eagle in the world is found in the Park Regional del Suroeste in dehesa hills between the Gredos and Guadarrama ranges. The recent possible detection of the existence of Iberian lynx in the area between the Cofio and Alberche rivers is testament to the biodiversity of the area. Taking advantage of the orography, there are several reservoirs and local dams, with the Santillana reservoir being the largest.

 

When looking at a map of the Province of Madrid, it can be seen that it is almost an equilateral triangle, in whose center would be the city. First, by the western side, it borders the "Sistema Central" (the Guadarrama mountain range), the southern border features a protrusion following the Tagus River in order to include the royal site of Aranjuez in the region; the eastern edge of the triangle comes from the rupture of the fluvial river basins. This autonomous community is located in the basin of the Tagus River. The Tagus passes through the southern border of the Autonomy in its path west toward the Atlantic Ocean, draining the waters of the Jarama River (collecting in turn the waters of the Lozoya, the Guadalix, the Manzanares, the Henares and the Tajuña), the Alberche and the Guadarrama in the Community.[6]

 
The Iberian ibex (Capra pyrenaica) in La Pedriza

This autonomous community also includes the exclave of Dehesa de la Cepeda (part of the municipality of Santa María de la Alameda), a mostly open-area geographically located between the provinces of Ávila and Segovia in the autonomous community of Castile and León.

Province of Madrid occupies a surface area of approximately 8,028 km2 (3,100 sq mi) (1.6% of all Spanish territory). More specifically, the exact position of Madrid is 3° 40´ of longitude west of Greenwich, England, and 40° 23´ north of the equator.

Most of province lies between 600 and 1,000 m above sea level. However, there the altitude ranges from the 2,428 metres of Peñalara and the 430 metres of the Alberche river when it leaves Villa del Prado into the province of Toledo.[7] Other considerable heights, as well as being famous, are the Bola del Mundo ("Ball of the World") in Navacerrada, at a height of 2,258 m, the Siete Picos ("Seven Peaks") in Cercedilla, at 2,138 m, and the Peña Cebollera (2,129 m) at the northernmost end of the province, a tripoint between the Madrid region and the provinces of Segovia and Guadalajara.

Fauna

Among the protected species of birds nesting in the region stand out the Spanish imperial eagle, the golden eagle, the Bonelli's eagle, the cinereous vulture, the peregrine falcon and the black stork.[8]

Exotic invasive species of birds and mammals in the region include the red-eared slider, the monk parakeet, the common snapping turtle, the rose-ringed parakeet, the American mink and the raccoon.[9] Species described as "out of place" and with an increasing population include the black-headed gull, the lesser black-backed gull, the great cormorant and Eurasian collared dove,[10] while the emblematic iberian ibex is presented as a case of a species "gone out of control" in La Pedriza following its re-introduction in the region in 1990 after roughly a century disappeared from the Madrilenian mountains.[11]

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

The mountain amphibians living at a high altitude include the fire salamander, the marbled newt, the alpine newt, the iberian frog, the European tree frog or the common midwife toad.[12] At a middle elevation in the mountain reaches close to water streams there are species such as the Bosca's newt, the southern marbled newt, the mediterranean tree frog or the iberian midwife toad.[13] The common parsley frog and the Alytes obstetricans pertinax dwell in the limestone lowlands near the Tagus in the south-east of the region.[13] Among the all-around amphibians adaptable to different heights stand out the natterjack toad, the common toad and the iberian green frog.[13] Other species with a wide distribution range (although in this case restricted by altitude) are the gallipato, the iberian spadefoot toad, the iberian painted frog, and the Spanish painted frog.[13]

Regarding the reptiles, species such as the Cyren's rock lizard, the European wall lizard, the iberian emerald lizard, the deaf adder or snakes such as the smooth snake or the Vipera latastei dwell in the mountain heights.[14] At the lower reaches of the mountains the European pond turtle and the Brediaga's skink can be found, while the western false smooth snake is restricted to areas in the south of the region.[15] Among the species of all-around reptiles, adaptable to different biomes stand out the Spanish pond turtle, the salamanquesa, the western three-toed skink, the spiny-footed lizard, the ocellated lizard, the Algerian sand racer, Spanish psammodromus, the ubiquitous iberian wall lizard, the iberian worm lizard, the Coronella girondica, the Montpellier snake; grass snake and the viperine snake.[16]

The fish species are affected by the high number of reservoirs in the region.[6] Among the threatened species in the rivers stand out the European eel, the iberian barbel, the Squalius alburnoides, the Cobitis calderoni and, potentially, the Chondrostoma lemmingii.[17] Conversely the set of invasive species of fish includes pike, black bullhead catfish, pumpkinseed, zander, common bleak and black-bass.[17]

Vegetation
 
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.

In the vicinity of the mountain peaks, oromediterranean vegetation such as Agrostis truncatula, Armeria caespitosa [es], Festuca indigesta, Jasione crispa [es], Jurinea humilis [es], Minuartia recurva, Pilosella vahlii, Plantago holosteum and the Thymus praecox is common.[18] Below the summit line, shrubby species such as the Cytisus oromediterraneus [es] and the common juniper as well as the Scots pine take over.[19] There are also masses of black pine and the pyrenean oak situated above the domain of the holm oak.[20]

 
Olive tree orchards in Arganda del Rey

Eurosiberian flora is not common in the region, and species such as the moor birch and the silver birch are restricted to very specific humid valley areas with special climate conditions.[21] The climax vegetation in the campiña is the holly oak. Some of the species that take over when the holly oak forest degrades are the "sticky shrub", the Retama sphaerocarpa [es], the French lavender, the Thymus mastichina and the Thymus zygis.[22]

The lower reaches of Guadarrama Mountain Range are populated by species such as the Juniperus thurifera, the maritime pine, the Portuguese oak, the stone pine; only in the somewhat more humid westernmost end of the region, near the Alto del Mirlo [es], there are forests of chestnut tree.[23]

54,4% of the surface of the region is soil categorised as forest areas of which the 51.4% (27.7% of the total of the region) it is already covered by forests, so there is room for tree re-population.[24] The first modest efforts towards tree re-population were taken in the Lozoya Valley in the late 19th century intending to achieve a purer water from the river,[25] that provided the capital with water for consumption. However the bulk of the process took place after the Spanish Civil War, with a largely successful repopulation with several species of conifers.[26]

Climate

The Madrid region features a climate marked by dry summers, while average temperature varies with altitude, marking different climate subtypes. Most of the region (including the capital) has a climate intermediate between a hot-summer mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa) and a cold semi-arid climate (Köppen BSk), with a dry summer and a moderate to low amount of rain primarily distributed throughout the rest of the year (in the case of the capital, roughly an equinoctial pattern of precipitation maximums), as well as summer temperature averages over 22 °C (with daily maximums consistently surpassing 30 °C in July and August). The areas at a higher altitude close to the Sierra de Guadarrama feature a colder climate, also generally with more precipitation (particularly in the winter), with climate subtypes ranging from the Csa to the warm-summer mediterranean climate (Köppen: Csb) and the dry summer continental climate (Köppen: Dsb) on the peaks of the mountain range, with temperature averages below freezing point during January and February in the later case.

History

Prehistory

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

The territory of the Community of Madrid has been populated since the Lower Paleolithic, mainly in the valleys between the rivers of Manzanares, Jarama, and Henares, where several archaeological findings have been made.

Some notable discoveries of the region the bell-shaped vase of Ciempozuelos (between 1970 and 1470 BCE),[27] from the Bell beaker culture.

Romans and Visigoths

 
A mosaic of the House of Dionysus in Complutum

During the Roman Empire, the region was part of the Citerior Tarraconese province, except for the south-west portion of it, which belonged to Lusitania. It was crossed by two important Roman roads, the via xxiv-xxix (joining Astorga to laminium and via xxv (which joined Emerita Augusta and Caesaraugusta), and contained some important conurbations. The city of Complutum (today Alcalá de Henares) became an important metropolis, whereas Titulcia and Miaccum were important crossroad communities.

During the period of the Visigothic Kingdom, the region lost its importance. The population was scattered amongst several small towns. Complutum was designated the bishopric seat in the 5th century by orders of Asturio, archbishop of Toledo, but this event was not enough to bring back the lost splendor of the city.

Al-Andalus

The centre of the peninsula (the Middle Mark of Al-Andalus or aṯ-Ṯaḡr al-Awsaṭ) became a strategic military post in the 11th century. The Muslim rulers created a defensive system of fortresses and towers all across the region with which they tried to stop the advance of the Christian kingdoms of the north.

The fortress of Mayrit (Madrid) was built somewhere between 860 and 880 AD, as a walled precinct where a military and religious community lived, and which constituted the foundation of the city. It soon became the most strategic fortress in defense of the city of Toledo above the fortresses of Talamanca and Qal'-at'-Abd-Al-Salam (Alcalá de Henares). In 1083 (or 1085) Alfonso VI took the city of Madrid in the context of his wider campaign to conquer Toledo.[28] Alcalá de Henares fell in 1118 in a new period of Castilian annexation.

 
City walls of Buitrago del Lozoya

Christian repopulation

The recently conquered lands by the Christian kingdoms were desegregated into several constituencies, as a consequence of a long process of repopulation that took place over the course of four centuries. The feudal and ecclesiastical lords came into constant conflict with the different councils that had been granted the authority to repopulate.

In the 13th century, Madrid was the only town of the current-day region that preserved its own juridical personality,[citation needed] at first with the Old Fuero (Charter) and later with the Royal Fuero, granted by Alfonso X of Castile in 1262 and ratified by Alfonso XI in 1339. On the other hand, the town of Buitrago del Lozoya, Alcalá de Henares and Talamanca de Jarama, which were rapidly repopulated until that century, were under the dominion of the feudal or ecclesiastical lords. Specifically, Alcalá de Henares was under the hands of the archbishopric of Toledo and remained so until the 19th century.

Around the town of Madrid, an administrative territory was created known as Tierra de Madrid (Land of Madrid), the origin of the province that included the areas of the current municipalities of San Sebastián de los Reyes, Cobeña, Las Rozas de Madrid, Rivas-Vaciamadrid, Torrejón de Velasco, Alcorcón, San Fernando de Henares, and Griñón.

Madrid was in constant strife with the powerful council of Segovia, whose jurisdiction extended south of the Guadarrama Mountains; they both fought for the control of the Real de Manzanares, a large comarca (shire) that was finally given to the House of Mendoza.

Castilian monarchs showed a predilection for the center of the peninsula, with abundant forests and game. El Pardo was a region visited frequently by kings since the time of Henry III, in the 14th century. The Catholic Monarchs started the construction of the Royal Palace of Aranjuez.[dubious ][29] In the 16th century, San Lorenzo de El Escorial was built and became another royal site of the province.

Early modern period

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

The town of Madrid, which was one of the eighteen cities with the right to vote in the Cortes of Castile, was seat of the Courts themselves on several occasions and was the residence of several monarchs, amongst them the emperor Charles I who reformed and expanded the Alcázar or Castle of the city. Alcalá de Henares grew in importance as cultural center since the foundation by the Cardinal Cisneros of its university.

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

In 1561, King Philip II made Madrid the capital of the Hispanic Monarchy. The surrounding territories became economically subordinated to the town itself, even beyond the present day limits of the Community of Madrid. But it was not a unified region as several lords and churches had jurisdiction over their own autonomous territories.

During the 18th century, the fragmented administration of the region was not solved despite several attempts. During the reign of Philip V, the intendencia was created as a political and administrative division. Nonetheless, the intendencia of Madrid did not fully solve the problem, and the region was still fragmented into several small dominions even though some processes were centralized. This territorial dispersion had a negative effect on its economic growth; while the town of Madrid received economic resources from the entire country as the capital, the surrounding territories—in hands of noblemen or the clergy—became impoverished.

During the eighteenth century, the town of Madrid was transformed through several grandiose buildings and monuments as well as through the creation of many social, economic, and cultural institutions, some of which are still operating. Madrid grew to a population of 156,672 inhabitants by the end of the eighteenth century.

Province

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

The current territory of the region was roughly defined with the 1833 reorganization of Spain into provinces promoted by Javier de Burgos, in which the province of Madrid was classified in the region of New Castile (lacking the later any sort of administrative institution at the regional level nonetheless). The government institution at the provincial level was the deputation (diputación). In addition to the former body, another provincial political authority was the civil governor discretionarily designated by the central government. A modest change to the 1833 provincial boundaries that concerned Madrid took place in 1850, when the small municipality of Valdeavero (19 km2), until then part of the province of Guadalajara, joined the province of Madrid.[30]

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

One of the limits so far for the growth of the capital, water supply, experienced a substantial change in 1858 following the arrival to the city of Madrid of water from the Lozoya River with the inauguration of the bringing of the Canal de Isabel II.[31]

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

In decadence since the middle 18th century, the city of Alcalá de Henares, experienced a relative demographic and economic upturn in the second half of the 19th century, based on its newly acquired condition of military outpost, to which an embrionary industrial nucleus was also added.[32]

During the reign of Ferdinand VII the south of the province was made up of small agricultural settlements of limited population. Among them, Getafe stood out in population,[33] and became the seat of a judicial district in 1834,[34] with the main economic activity of the former jurisdiction still being non-irrigated agriculture.[34] Rail transport arrived in 1851, with the Strawberry train, the railway connecting Madrid and Aranjuez.

 
Ruins of the headquarters of the provincial deputation in 1939

During the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939), the territory was divided by the battlefront, with the southwest of the province controlled by the rebel faction, and the capital as well as a great part of the rest of the province by the side loyal to the Republic. The city of Madrid was target of many bombings during the conflict, becoming the first big city in Europe to suffer such systematic and massive air attacks.[35]

Since the 1970s, a process of a population transfer from the capital to the rest of municipalities of the metropolitan area emerged. This process accelerated when the autonomous community was founded, and it took placed along a strong decrease of birth rates.[36]

Autonomous community

The creation of the contemporary Community of Madrid was preceded by an intense political debate. Autonomous communities were to be created by one or more provinces with a distinct regional identity. Since the 1833 provincial organization, Madrid was part of the historical region of New Castile along with the provinces of Guadalajara, Toledo, Cuenca and Ciudad Real. Thus, it was first planned that the province of Madrid would be part of the future community of Castile–La Mancha (which was roughly similar to New Castile, with the addition of Albacete) but with some special considerations as the home of the national capital.[37] The other provinces that were to become part of the autonomous community of Castile–La Mancha expressed fears of inequality if Madrid were associated with them. These provinces opposed such a special status, and after considering other options for Madrid—like its inclusion in the community of Castile and León or its constitution as an entity similar to a federal district.[37]—it was decided that the province of Madrid would become a single-province autonomous community by virtue of Article 144 of the Constitution, which empowers the Cortes to create an autonomous community in the "nation's interest" even if it did not satisfy the requirement of having a distinct historical identity. Thus, in 1983, the Community of Madrid was constituted and a Statute of Autonomy was approved taking over all the competences of the old "Diputación Provincial" and the new ones the Statute considered.

 
Sunset in Las Tablas in 2015

During the first 25 years of the "autonomic" period, this autonomous community accounted for the biggest economic growth in Spain, becoming a platform for the internationalisation of the Spanish economy,[38] featuring a marked preponderance of the service sector.[39] By the turn of the 21st century, a strong boost to the construction sub-sector also took place.[40] During this period the Community of Madrid stood out due to its role as centre for welcoming immigration,[41] due to its condition as transport node vis-à-vis the Spanish geography,[42] and due to its condition as scientific and cultural centre of the country.[43]

Government and politics

Autonomous institutions of government

 
Hemicycle of the Assembly of Madrid, the autonomous legislature
 
A meeting of the Council of Government presided by former President Ángel Garrido

Like the rest of autonomous communities, the Community of Madrid is organized politically within a parliamentary system; that is, the head of government—known as the "president"—is dependent on the direct support from the autonomous legislature, whose members elect him by a majority.

The Statute of Autonomy of the Madrid Autonomous Community is the fundamental organic law in conjunction with (and subordinated to) the Spanish constitution. The Statute of Autonomy establishes that the powers through which the self-government of the autonomous community is exercised are the following institutions:

  • The Assembly of Madrid,[44] a directly elected body, represents the people of Madrid and exercises the legislative power of the community in approving and supervising the budget and in coordinating and controlling the actions of the government. The seat of the Assembly is located in Madrid, in the district of Puente de Vallecas. The members of the legislature (currently 132) are elected through proportional representation with closed-party lists and a 5% electoral threshold in a single region-wide constituency.[n. 1] The last election took place on 26 May 2019.
  • The President of the Community of Madrid is the supreme representative of the autonomous community and the ordinary representation of the State. It presides and heads the activities of the Madrilenian autonomous government, designates and dismisses the vice-presidents and the ministers (consejeros) which conform an executive cabinet. The investiture of the regional president, who is nominated as candidate by the Speaker of the Assembly among its members after holding consultations, is voted by a qualified majority of the plenary of the legislature (or, failing to achieve the former, a simple majority of 'yes' votes in a second round voting 48 hours later) and then formally appointed by the King through a Royal Decree. The seat of the Presidency is the Real Casa de Correos located at the Puerta del Sol at the center of Madrid.[46] Since 2019, the president is Isabel Díaz Ayuso, of the People's Party (PP).
  • The Government of the Community of Madrid is the collegiate body that heads the politics and the executive and administrative powers of the community. The incumbent Council of Government comprises the President, the Vice-President (assuming additional competences) and twelve more ministers.

Delegation of the Central Government

Since the creation of autonomous communities, the Government of Spain appoints a special representative to each region, the Government Delegate, part of the Peripheral State Administration. Unlike other single-province autonomous communities, the Government also appoints the Government Sub-delegate, the successor office to the provincial civil governor. The seats of both the delegation and the subdelegation are located at the Borghetto Palace [es] in Madrid.[47][48]

Administrative divisions

 

The Community of Madrid, following the long-standing form of local government in Spain, is divided administratively into 179 municipalities (featuring 801 towns and entities). Its municipalities comprise 2.2% of the Spanish territory (8110). It is ranked 23rd amongst Spanish provinces in number of municipalities, which is slightly above average.[n. 2] The average is 165 municipalities by province. The ayuntamiento, presided by its alcalde (Mayor) is the formal institution charged with the government and administration of most municipalities. The municipal councillors forming the deliberative assembly of the ayuntamiento are directly elected through proportional representation with closed party lists and a 5% electoral threshold. In turn, the councillors are charged with electing from among themselves (by default candidates are the head of each electoral list) the Mayor presiding over the ayuntamiento.

There are twenty judicial districts (partidos judiciales), whose seats correspond to the municipalities of Alcalá de Henares, Alcobendas, Alcorcón, Aranjuez, Arganda del Rey, Collado Villalba, Colmenar Viejo, Coslada, Fuenlabrada, Getafe, Leganés, Madrid, Majadahonda, Móstoles, Navalcarnero, Parla, San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Torrejón de Ardoz, Torrelaguna, Valdemoro and Valdaracete (the historical judicial district of San Martín de Valdeiglesias is no longer a judicial district as of 1985). These jurisdictions relate to the judicial administration, with their seat having at least one court of first instance.

Economy

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

Madrid is the autonomous community with the highest income per capita in Spain at €35.041 ($42.800) in 2018 - significantly above the national average and ahead of the Basque Country, with €33.223, Navarra, €31,389, and Catalonia, €30.426.[49] In that year, the GDP growth was 1.0%.[49] Madrid has a GDP of 230.8 billion ($281 billion) as of 2018; making it the largest economy of Spain, ahead of Catalonia, where regional GDP amounted to €228.7 billion and the most populated Spanish region, Andalusia (€160.6 billion).[50][51]

 
Airbus A330-A340 horizontal stabilizer near the Getafe Airbus factory

In 2005, the Community of Madrid was the main receptor of foreign investment in the country, at 34.3% of the total. The community ranks 34th amongst all European regions (evaluated in 2002), and 50th amongst the most competitive cities-regions worldwide,[52] ahead of Barcelona and Valencia, the other two largest metropolitan areas of Spain. The strengths of the economy of the community are its low unemployment rate, its high investment in research, its high development, and the added-value services therein performed. Its weaknesses include the low penetration of broadband and new technologies of information and an unequal male to female occupation.[53]

 
Madrid Trade Fair

The service, construction, and industry sectors are prominent in Madrid's commercial productive structure. According to the Directorio Central de Empresas (Central Companies Directory of the INE), Madrid's active businesses stand in third place nationally in terms of numbers as at 1 January 2006. The branches of activity with most active businesses are other business activities, retail trade, construction, wholesale trade, hospitality, property activities, land transport, and pipeline transport.

Madrid's levels of industrial activity set it at fourth place in Spain. The following areas predominate in terms of business numbers: publishing and graphic arts, manufacture of metal products (except machinery and equipment), manufacture of furniture and other manufacturing industries, wearing apparel and fur industry, and food product industry. The province also boasts a higher concentration of high and medium technology activities and services than the rest of Spain. This is the case in the following areas: manufacture of office machinery and IT equipment; manufacture of electronic products, manufacture of radio equipment, and devices; manufacture of medical and surgical, precision, optical and timekeeping equipment and instruments; post and telecommunications; IT activities; and research and development.[54]

Regional authorities have put a notable effort in the development of logistics infrastructures in both the region of Madrid and the city proper. These include the Coslada Dry Port, the freight zone of the Madrid-Barajas Airport, Mercamadrid, the Madrid-Abroñigal [es] logistics centre, the Villaverde's Logistics Centre and the Vicálvaro's Logistics Centre to name a few.[55] Overall, logistics companies has greatly developed along the A-2 highway (Coslada, San Fernando de Henares, Torrejón de Ardoz) in the eastern part of the region, the so-called "Henares Corridor" to become what has come to be termed as the "golden mile" of logistics and e-commerce in Spain.[56][57]

The unemployment rate stood at 10.0% in 2019 and was lower than the national average.[58]

Unemployment rate (December data) (%)
2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
6.5% 6.4% 10.0% 14.5% 15.5% 18.0% 19.3% 20.5% 18.0% 16.5% 14.6% 13.8% 11.5% 10.0%

Demographics

Historical population
YearPop.±%
1900775,034—    
1910878,641+13.4%
19201,067,637+21.5%
19301,383,591+29.6%
19401,579,793+14.2%
19501,926,311+21.9%
19602,606,254+35.3%
19703,792,561+45.5%
19814,687,083+23.6%
19914,947,555+5.6%
20015,423,384+9.6%
20116,489,680+19.7%
20216,726,640+3.7%
Source: INE
 

Population density by municipality
according to the Institute for Statistics of
the Community of Madrid (2017):

  ≥ 600/km²
  200-600/km²
  90-200/km²
  20-90/km²
  <20/km²

The Community of Madrid is the third most populous region in Spain, after Andalusia and Catalonia, and the most populous province, with 6,661,949 inhabitants. Population density is 829.62 hab/km2, much higher than the national average of 93.8 hab/km2. Population density varies with the community itself; the municipality of Madrid has a density of 5,300 hab/km2, whereas the Sierra Norte has a population density of less than 10 hab/km2. The vast majority of the population lives in the capital and its metropolitan area, which is the most populated in Spain.

Madrid also has the greatest population density in Spain. Its inhabitants are mainly concentrated in the capital (which is the Spanish city with the highest resident population) and in a series of municipalities (Móstoles, Alcalá de Henares, Fuenlabrada, Leganés, Alcorcón, Getafe, Torrejón de Ardoz, and Alcobendas), as opposed to in rural areas with low population density. Its citizens have diverse origins, and Madrid is the province with the highest number of residents born outside its territory and with the largest foreign population (13.32%).[dubious ] It is a focus of attraction for those migrating for reasons of employment. Population growth in Madrid is mainly due to the arrival of foreigners.[59]

For most of its history, the Community of Madrid has been overwhelmingly Catholic,[60] with minority Jewish and Muslim populations.

The Community of Madrid is the EU-Region with the highest average life expectancy at birth. The average life expectancy was 82.2 years for males and 87.8 for females in 2016.[61]

 
 
Largest municipalities in the Community of Madrid
INE (1 January 2020)[62]
Rank Pop. Rank Pop.
 
Madrid
 
Móstoles
1 Madrid 3,334,730 11 Las Rozas 96,113  
Alcalá de Henares
 
Fuenlabrada
2 Móstoles 210,309 12 San Sebastián de los Reyes 91,224
3 Alcalá de Henares 197,562 13 Rivas Vaciamadrid 90,973
4 Fuenlabrada 194,514 14 Pozuelo de Alarcón 87,165
5 Leganés 191,114 15 Coslada 81,391
6 Getafe 185,180 16 Valdemoro 77,270
7 Alcorcón 172,384 17 Majadahonda 72,155
8 Parla 133,482 18 Collado Villalba 64,378
9 Torrejón de Ardoz 132,853 19 Aranjuez 60,332
10 Alcobendas 118,417 20 Boadilla del Monte 56,734
Foreign population

As of 2018, the region had a foreign population of 826,456.[63] The largest groups of foreigners were those of Romanian, Moroccan, Chinese, Colombian, Ecuadorian, Venezuelan and Italian citizenship.[63]

Foreign population by country of citizenship (2018)[63]
Nationality Population
  Romania 163,730
  Morocco 76,697
  China 59,757
  Colombia 39,523
  Ecuador 37,517
  Venezuela 29,017
  Italy 28,787
  Peru 27,826
  Dominican Republic 25,312
  Paraguay 24,928
Other 313,362

Education

State Education in Spain is free and compulsory from six to sixteen years of age. The current education system is called LOMLOE (Ley Orgánica 3/2020, de 29 de diciembre, por la que se modifica la Ley Orgánica 2/2006, de 3 de mayo, de Educación).[64]

Levels

 
Secondary school in Torrejón de Ardoz
  • From three to six years - Educación Infantil (Preparatory School)
  • From six to twelve years - Educación Primaria (Primary School), years first through sixth
  • From twelve to sixteen years - Educación Secundaria Obligatoria (Compulsory Secondary School), years first through fourth
  • From sixteen to seventeen years - Bachillerato (Post-Compulsory School), years first and second

Children from three to five years old in Spain have the option of attending the pre-school stage, which is non-compulsory and free for all students. It is regarded as an integral part of the education system with infantil classes in almost every primary school. There are some separate Colegios Infantiles or nursery schools.

Spanish students aged six to sixteen undergo primary and secondary school education, which are compulsory and free of charge. Successful students are awarded a Secondary Education Certificate, which is necessary for entering further (optional) education as is Bachillerato for their University or Formación Profesional (vocational studies). Once students have finished their Bachillerato, they can take their University Entrance Exam (Pruebas de Acceso a la Universidad, popularly called Selectividad) which differs greatly from region to region.

The secondary stage of education is normally referred to by its initials, e.g. ESO or Educación Secundaria Obligatoria for secondary education.

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Universities

Madrid is home to a large number of public and private universities.

The Complutense University of Madrid is one of the most prestigious, and the largest, university in Spain and one of the oldest universities in the world. It has 10,000 staff members and a student population of 117,000. Nearly all academic staff are Spanish. It is located on two campuses, in the university quarter Ciudad Universitaria at Moncloa in Madrid, and in Somosaguas.[65] The Complutense University of Madrid was founded in Alcalá de Henares, old Complutum, by Cardinal Cisneros in 1499. Nevertherless, its real origin dates back from 1293, when King Sancho IV of Castile built the General Schools of Alcalá, which would give rise to Cisnero's Complutense University. During the course of 1509-1510 five schools were already operative: Artes y Filosofía (Arts & Philosophy), Teología (Theology), Derecho Canónico (Canonical Laws), Letras (Liberal Arts) and Medicina (Medicine). In 1836, during the reign of Isabel II, the University was moved to Madrid, where it took the name of Central University and was located at San Bernardo Street. Subsequently, in 1927, a new University City ("Ciudad Universitaria") was planned to be built in the district of Moncloa-Aravaca. The Spanish Civil War turned the University City into a war zone, with several faculties sustaining severe damage during the conflict. By 1943 the Central University started to be known as the University of Madrid.[66]

In 1970 the University of Madrid was renamed to Complutense University of Madrid. It was then when the new campus at Somosaguas was created in order to house the new School of Social Sciences. The old Alcalá campus was reopened as the independent University of Alcalá in 1977.[67]

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

Another important university is the Autonoma, perhaps Spain's best university for research along with the Complutense, was instituted under the leadership of the famous physicist, Nicolás Cabrera. The Autonoma is widely recognised for its research strengths in theoretical physics. Known simply as la Autónoma in Madrid, its main site is the Cantoblanco Campus, situated 15 kilometers to the north of the capital (M-607) and close to the municipal areas of Madrid, namely Alcobendas, San Sebastián de los Reyes, Tres Cantos and Colmenar Viejo. Located on the main site are the Rectorate building and the Faculties of Science, Philosophy and Fine Arts, Law, Economic Science and Business Studies, Psychology, Higher School of Computing Science and Engineering, and the Faculty of Teacher Training and Education. The Medical School is located outside the main site and beside the Hospital Universitario La Paz.[68]

 
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

Other local universities, among many others, are the Technical University of Madrid, as the result of merging the different Technical Schools of Engineering; the Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, founded in 1499; the Carlos III, whose philosophy is to create responsible free-thinking people with a sensitivity to social problems and an involvement in the concept of progress based on freedom, justice and tolerance and the Universidad Pontificia Comillas, involved in a number of academic exchange programmes, work practice schemes and international projects with over 200 Higher Education Institutions in Europe, South America, North America, and Asia.

Other universities in Madrid: Rey Juan Carlos University (public), Alfonso X El Sabio University, Universidad Antonio de Nebrija, Universidad Camilo José Cela, Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, Universidad Europea de Madrid, and Universidad San Pablo (all of them private).

Madrid is also home to the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía, the Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid, and many other private educational institutions.

Transportation

Air

 
Barajas Airport

Madrid is served by Barajas International Airport. Barajas is the main hub of Iberia Airlines and consequently serves as the main gateway to the Iberian peninsula from Europe, the Americas, and the rest of the world. Current passenger volumes range upwards of 52 million passengers per year, putting it in the top 10 busiest airports in the world.[69] Given annual increases close to 10%, a new fourth terminal has been constructed. It has significantly reduced delays and doubled the capacity of the airport to more than 70 million passengers per year. Two additional runways have also been constructed, making Barajas a fully operational four-runway airport.

Commuter rail

 
Commuter rail station in Parla

Cercanías Madrid is the commuter rail service that serves Madrid, the capital of Spain, and its metropolitan area. It is operated by Cercanías, the commuter rail division of Renfe, the former monopoly of rail services in Spain. The system is infamous for being the target of 11 March 2004 Madrid train bombings. The attacks triggered a small reduction in the ridership of the system, but it is still the most used and most profitable[70] (by 2004) of the commuter rail services in Spain. The total length spans 339.1 km (210.7 mi).

Spain's railway system, the Red Nacional de Ferrocarriles Españoles (Renfe), operates the vast majority of Spain's railways. In Madrid, the main rail terminals are Atocha in the south and Chamartín in the north.

High-speed rail

 
AVE trains in Atocha

The crown jewel of Spain's next decade of infrastructure construction is the Spanish high-speed rail network, Alta Velocidad Española AVE. Currently, an ambitious plan includes the construction of a 7,000-kilometre (4,300 mi) network, centered on Madrid. The overall goal is to have all important provincial cities be no more than four hours away from Madrid and no more than six hours away from Barcelona. As of 2008, AVE high-speed trains link Madrid-Atocha station to Seville, Málaga, and Toledo in the south, Valencia, Albacete, Cuenca and Alicante in the east, and to Zaragoza, Tarragona, Girona, Leida, Huesca and Barcelona in the north-east. AVE trains also arrive to Segovia, Valladolid, Zamora and León.

Already connected by tunnels used by conventional rail lines, a tunnel link connecting the Atocha and Chamartín stations with high-speed rail services is finished but, as of August 2019, yet to be inaugurated.[71]

Metro

Serving the city's population of some six million, the Madrid Metro is one of the most extensive and fastest-growing metro networks in the world.[72] With the addition of a loop serving suburbs to Madrid's south-west "Metrosur", it is now the second largest metro system in Western Europe, second only to London's Underground. In 2007, Madrid's metro system was expanded, and it currently runs over 322 kilometers (200 mi) of line. The province of Madrid is also served by an extensive commuter rail network called Cercanías.

Metro fees are regulated by the Consorcio Regional de Transportes de Madrid (CRTM) jointly with fees for commuter rail, bus transport and light-rail.

Culture

Symbols

The flag, coat of arms and hymn of the Community of Madrid were set through the regional Law 2/1983 published in the official regional gazette on 24 December 1983:[73]

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

The flag is described as follows: "the flag of the Community of Madrid is crimson red, with seven silver five-pointed stars, arranged 4 and 3 on the centre of the canvas".[73] According to the law, the flag should wave both at the outdoors (occupying a preferential place next to the flag of Spain) and at the indoors of every public building of the autonomous administration as well as every public building of the municipal administrations located within the territory of the autonomous community.

Coat of arms

The arms are described as follows: "The coat of arms of the Community of Madrid features just one partition gules, and on it, two paired, embattled, turreted, castles or, with port and windows tinctured azure, masoned sable, surmounted by seven five-pointed stars argent arranged four and three on chief."[74] The crest describes the heraldic representation of the royal crown of Spain.

Hymn

The official anthem was defined along the flag and coat of arms.[73] However it has very limited institutional use, and thus, it is barely known.

Cuisine

 
Cheese from Campo Real [es]

Although the region does not produce enough food to be self-sufficient, the varied territory of the region outside the urbanised centre provides enough food commodities to create its own cuisine: cheese of Campo Real, vine with Vinos de Madrid DO, strawberries and aspargus from Aranjuez, muskmelons from Villaconejos, artichokes from Ciempozuelos, judiones from Montejo de la Sierra, garlic from Chinchón, chickpeas from Navalcarnero, lentils from Colmenar de Oreja, cauliflower from Griñón or a number of vegetables from the Alberche Valley.[75]

In addition, due to the rich restaurant business in the region, "all the regional cuisines of Spain are represented in Madrid" according to José del Corral Raya [es].[76] As the madrilenian cuisine has absorbed much from the rest of regional cuisines of Spain, there is ambiguity when it comes to define the former; however, dishes such as the cocido madrileño, the potaje de garbanzos, the callos a la madrileña [es], the sopa de ajo or the tortilla de patatas are considered part of the madrilenian cuisine regardless of their geographical specificity.[77] By April 2011 the region had over 40,0000 bars, 2,700 coffee shops and nearly 10,000 restaurants.[78]

Religion

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

The majority of the religious population is Catholic, Roman Catholicism is, by far, the largest religion in Community of Madrid. According to a 2019 CIS poll, 18.9% of the surveyed people in the region identified as practising Catholic and 43.0% as non-practising Catholic.[79] The most important religious minorities are evangelicals, Jews and Muslims.[80]

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

Among the evangelical denominations the following denominations stand out: Spanish Evangelical Church (IEE), several Presbiterian or Reformed Churches, the Spanish Reformed Episcopal Church (IERE), Baptist and Free churches (Unión Evangélica Bautista Española, Federación de las Iglesias Evangélicas Independientes de España), the Asambleas de Hermanos), Pentecostal Churches (Asambleas de Dios, Iglesia de la Biblia Abierta, Iglesia Filadelfia, Iglesia Cuadrangular), Charismatic churches (Iglesias de Buenas Noticias, Asamblea Cristiana, Asamblea para la Evangelización Mundial para Cristo), minor churches such as The Salvation Army, Mennonite Churches and Hermanos en Cristo), non-grouped evangelical churches, and adventist churches.[81] Pentecostal churches have lately experienced a notable growth due to the arrival of immigrants from Latin-America.[82] Evangelicals also have a notable following among the Romani population.[83] The Muslim population includes the first contemporary Muslims in Spain (who came from Middle East and had middle class university background), converts (chiefly sunni Muslims) and representatives of a second arrival of Muslim economic migrants (with more of an economic migrant profile than the first wave).[84]

 
Jehovah's Witnesses literature in Madrid

Since the second half of the 20th century the Jewish population in the region grew due to both Sephardi Jews that came from the MENA, as well as exiles from Latin America (mostly Argentinians) primordially Ashkenazim.[85]

There are also Greek, Romanian and Russian orthodox Christians, Jehovah Witnesses (15,031 according to 2001 estimations) and Mormons (6,700 according to 2007 estimations).[86] There are some buddhists (the majority of which have Spanish citizenship and are from the middle to uppermiddle class),[87] and small minorities of believers of religions of vedic origin: hinduism (primordially Sindhis),[88] sikhism, Hare Krishna and Brahma Kumaris. There are a scarce amount of believers of the Baháʼí Faith. Other confessions, often derided as "cults" (sectas) in the country, such as the Unification movement and Scientology, have a marginal presence.[89]

Feasts

 
Official feasts of the 2 de Mayo

The regional day is the 2 May, commemorating the Dos de Mayo Uprising of the citizens of Madrid against the French occupation in 1808 that triggered the wave of insurrections marking the beginning of the Peninsular War. It is a public holiday in the Community of Madrid since 1984, when it was approved by the regional legislature and sanctioned as law.[90]

A floral tribute is traditionally offered to the fallen "heroes" by the regional authorities. The ceremony of presentation of commemorative medals to stand out individuals also take place on this day in the Royal House of the Post Office.[91]

Sports

 
Practice of padel tennis in Madrid

According to a 2010 study by the National Sports Council (CSD), madrilenians led the country in terms of grassroots sports practice.[92]

Roughly a 52% of the regional population between 15 and 75 years old practised one sports modality, while a 10% of the population between 15 and 75 years old practised two or more sports.[92] The most practised sports modalities were: fitness gymnastics (43.6%), football (22.1%), swimming (20.7%), cycling (19.6%), jogging/running (16.2%), padel (9.9%), athletics (8.3%), basketball (6.9%), other football modalities (6.6%), hiking (6.1%), martial arts (4.5%), body-building (3.5%), shooting/hunting (0.9%) and recreational fishing (0.2%).[92]

Association football is the most popular sport in Spain in terms of passive following. The Madrid Football Federation is the governing body of the sport of football in region. The Community of Madrid has its own autonomous team, the Madrid autonomous football team, taking part in friendly fixtures. It currently has 2 top flight men's football teams: Real Madrid and Atlético Madrid. The first of them, Real Madrid, has become one of the most valuable sports teams in the planet.[93]

The regional administration had its own big track and field stadium, "La Peineta", inaugurated in 1994. It was later transferred to the Madrid City Council, becoming the center of two unsuccessful bids of the city of Madrid to the Summer Olympics.

International relations

Twinning

Notes

  1. ^ The elections have normally followed the default electoral calendar set for most autonomous communities (with the exception of Catalonia, the Basque Country, Galicia, and Andalusia). The only exception to this occurred in 2003, in which due to the refusal of two socialist deputies to follow party discipline after the May election prevented the formation of any government.[45] Therefore, new elections were held in October, outside the established electoral calendar.
  2. ^ In Madrid, the average area of a municipality is 44.8 km2 (17.3 sq mi), slightly larger than the national average. Madrid is by far the largest. Between 1948 and 1954, the city annexed the neighboring municipalities of Chamartín de la Rosa, Fuencarral, Barajas, El Pardo, Hortaleza, Canillas, Canillejas, Vicálvaro, Vallecas, Villaverde, Carabanchel Alto, Carabanchel Baja and Aravaca. The five largest municipalities by area are: Madrid 605.8 km2 (233.9 sq mi); Aranjuez 189.1 km2 (73.0 sq mi); Colmenar Viejo 182.6 km2 (70.5 sq mi); Rascafría 150.3 km2 (58.0 sq mi); and Manzanares el Real 128.4 km2 (49.6 sq mi). The smallest municipalities by area are: Casarrubuelos 5.3 km2 (2.0 sq mi); La Serna del Monte 5.4 km2 (2.1 sq mi); Pelayos de la Presa 7.6 km2 (2.9 sq mi); Madarcos 8.5 km2 (3.3 sq mi); and Torrejón de la Calzada 9.0 km2 (3.5 sq mi).

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External links

  • Official website of Community of Madrid
  • Official website of Community of Madrid on tourism and business
  • Official website of Madrid–Barajas International Airport
  • Official website of Metro Madrid

community, madrid, spanish, comunidad, madrid, komuniˈðað, maˈðɾið, listen, seventeen, autonomous, communities, spain, located, centre, iberian, peninsula, central, plateau, meseta, central, capital, largest, municipality, city, madrid, which, also, capital, c. The Community of Madrid Spanish Comunidad de Madrid komuniˈdad de maˈdɾid listen is one of the seventeen autonomous communities of Spain It is located in the centre of the Iberian Peninsula and of the Central Plateau Meseta Central 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 Leon It was formally created in 1983 based on the limits of the province of Madrid which was until then conventionally included in the historical region of New Castile Community of Madrid Comunidad de MadridAutonomous communityFlagCoat of armsAnthem Himno de la Comunidad de Madrid Anthem of the Community of Madrid source source source Location of the Community of Madrid within SpainCoordinates 40 30 N 3 40 W 40 500 N 3 667 W 40 500 3 667 Coordinates 40 30 N 3 40 W 40 500 N 3 667 W 40 500 3 667CountrySpainCapitalCity of MadridGovernment PresidentIsabel Diaz Ayuso PP LegislatureAssembly of Madrid ExecutiveGovernment of the Community of MadridArea Total8 028 19 km2 3 099 70 sq mi Ranked 12th 1 6 of SpainPopulation 2019 Total6 661 949 Density829 62 km2 2 148 7 sq mi Pop rank3rd Percent14 2 of SpainDemonymMadrilenian Madrilene madrileno madrilenaGDP PPA 2021 Per capita 47 041 5 7 1 ISO 3166 2ES MDOfficial languagesSpanishStatute of Autonomy1 March 1983HDI 2018 0 941 2 very high 1stCongress seats37 of 350 Senate seats11 of 265 Websitecomunidad madridThe Community of Madrid is the third most populous in Spain with 6 661 949 2019 inhabitants mostly concentrated in the metropolitan area of Madrid 3 It is also the most densely populated autonomous community In absolute terms Madrid s economy has been since 2018 slightly bigger in size than that of Catalonia 4 Madrid has the highest GDP per capita in the country 5 It contains three World Heritage Sites the Monastery and Royal Site of El Escorial the University and historic centre of Alcala de Henares and the cultural landscape of Aranjuez In addition the Montejo Beech Forest es is part of the transnational Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe world heritage site Contents 1 Geography 2 Climate 3 History 3 1 Prehistory 3 2 Romans and Visigoths 3 3 Al Andalus 3 4 Christian repopulation 3 5 Early modern period 3 6 Province 3 7 Autonomous community 4 Government and politics 4 1 Autonomous institutions of government 4 2 Delegation of the Central Government 4 3 Administrative divisions 5 Economy 6 Demographics 7 Education 7 1 Levels 7 2 Universities 8 Transportation 8 1 Air 8 2 Commuter rail 8 3 High speed rail 8 4 Metro 9 Culture 9 1 Symbols 9 2 Cuisine 9 3 Religion 9 4 Feasts 9 5 Sports 10 International relations 11 Notes 12 References 13 Bibliography 14 External linksGeography Edit Despite the existence of a large city of 5 million people the Community of Madrid still retains some remarkably unspoiled and diverse habitats and landscapes Madrid is home to mountain peaks rising above 2 000 m holm oak dehesas and low lying plains The slopes of the Guadarrama mountain range are cloaked in dense forests of Scots pine and Pyrenean oak The Lozoya Valley supports a large black monk vulture colony and one of the last bastions of the Spanish imperial eagle in the world is found in the Park Regional del Suroeste in dehesa hills between the Gredos and Guadarrama ranges The recent possible detection of the existence of Iberian lynx in the area between the Cofio and Alberche rivers is testament to the biodiversity of the area Taking advantage of the orography there are several reservoirs and local dams with the Santillana reservoir being the largest Penalara The Guadarrama mountain range s highest peak When looking at a map of the Province of Madrid it can be seen that it is almost an equilateral triangle in whose center would be the city First by the western side it borders the Sistema Central the Guadarrama mountain range the southern border features a protrusion following the Tagus River in order to include the royal site of Aranjuez in the region the eastern edge of the triangle comes from the rupture of the fluvial river basins This autonomous community is located in the basin of the Tagus River The Tagus passes through the southern border of the Autonomy in its path west toward the Atlantic Ocean draining the waters of the Jarama River collecting in turn the waters of the Lozoya the Guadalix the Manzanares the Henares and the Tajuna the Alberche and the Guadarrama in the Community 6 The Iberian ibex Capra pyrenaica in La Pedriza This autonomous community also includes the exclave of Dehesa de la Cepeda part of the municipality of Santa Maria de la Alameda a mostly open area geographically located between the provinces of Avila and Segovia in the autonomous community of Castile and Leon Province of Madrid occupies a surface area of approximately 8 028 km2 3 100 sq mi 1 6 of all Spanish territory More specifically the exact position of Madrid is 3 40 of longitude west of Greenwich England and 40 23 north of the equator Most of province lies between 600 and 1 000 m above sea level However there the altitude ranges from the 2 428 metres of Penalara and the 430 metres of the Alberche river when it leaves Villa del Prado into the province of Toledo 7 Other considerable heights as well as being famous are the Bola del Mundo Ball of the World in Navacerrada at a height of 2 258 m the Siete Picos Seven Peaks in Cercedilla at 2 138 m and the Pena Cebollera 2 129 m at the northernmost end of the province a tripoint between the Madrid region and the provinces of Segovia and Guadalajara FaunaAmong the protected species of birds nesting in the region stand out the Spanish imperial eagle the golden eagle the Bonelli s eagle the cinereous vulture the peregrine falcon and the black stork 8 Exotic invasive species of birds and mammals in the region include the red eared slider the monk parakeet the common snapping turtle the rose ringed parakeet the American mink and the raccoon 9 Species described as out of place and with an increasing population include the black headed gull the lesser black backed gull the great cormorant and Eurasian collared dove 10 while the emblematic iberian ibex is presented as a case of a species gone out of control in La Pedriza following its re introduction in the region in 1990 after roughly a century disappeared from the Madrilenian mountains 11 A fire salamander in the laguna de los Pajaros es The mountain amphibians living at a high altitude include the fire salamander the marbled newt the alpine newt the iberian frog the European tree frog or the common midwife toad 12 At a middle elevation in the mountain reaches close to water streams there are species such as the Bosca s newt the southern marbled newt the mediterranean tree frog or the iberian midwife toad 13 The common parsley frog and the Alytes obstetricans pertinax dwell in the limestone lowlands near the Tagus in the south east of the region 13 Among the all around amphibians adaptable to different heights stand out the natterjack toad the common toad and the iberian green frog 13 Other species with a wide distribution range although in this case restricted by altitude are the gallipato the iberian spadefoot toad the iberian painted frog and the Spanish painted frog 13 An Algerian sand racer in Manzanares el Real Regarding the reptiles species such as the Cyren s rock lizard the European wall lizard the iberian emerald lizard the deaf adder or snakes such as the smooth snake or the Vipera latastei dwell in the mountain heights 14 At the lower reaches of the mountains the European pond turtle and the Brediaga s skink can be found while the western false smooth snake is restricted to areas in the south of the region 15 Among the species of all around reptiles adaptable to different biomes stand out the Spanish pond turtle the salamanquesa the western three toed skink the spiny footed lizard the ocellated lizard the Algerian sand racer Spanish psammodromus the ubiquitous iberian wall lizard the iberian worm lizard the Coronella girondica the Montpellier snake grass snake and the viperine snake 16 The fish species are affected by the high number of reservoirs in the region 6 Among the threatened species in the rivers stand out the European eel the iberian barbel the Squalius alburnoides the Cobitis calderoni and potentially the Chondrostoma lemmingii 17 Conversely the set of invasive species of fish includes pike black bullhead catfish pumpkinseed zander common bleak and black bass 17 Vegetation 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 In the vicinity of the mountain peaks oromediterranean vegetation such as Agrostis truncatula Armeria caespitosa es Festuca indigesta Jasione crispa es Jurinea humilis es Minuartia recurva Pilosella vahlii Plantago holosteum and the Thymus praecox is common 18 Below the summit line shrubby species such as the Cytisus oromediterraneus es and the common juniper as well as the Scots pine take over 19 There are also masses of black pine and the pyrenean oak situated above the domain of the holm oak 20 Olive tree orchards in Arganda del Rey Eurosiberian flora is not common in the region and species such as the moor birch and the silver birch are restricted to very specific humid valley areas with special climate conditions 21 The climax vegetation in the campina is the holly oak Some of the species that take over when the holly oak forest degrades are the sticky shrub the Retama sphaerocarpa es the French lavender the Thymus mastichina and the Thymus zygis 22 The lower reaches of Guadarrama Mountain Range are populated by species such as the Juniperus thurifera the maritime pine the Portuguese oak the stone pine only in the somewhat more humid westernmost end of the region near the Alto del Mirlo es there are forests of chestnut tree 23 54 4 of the surface of the region is soil categorised as forest areas of which the 51 4 27 7 of the total of the region it is already covered by forests so there is room for tree re population 24 The first modest efforts towards tree re population were taken in the Lozoya Valley in the late 19th century intending to achieve a purer water from the river 25 that provided the capital with water for consumption However the bulk of the process took place after the Spanish Civil War with a largely successful repopulation with several species of conifers 26 Climate EditThe Madrid region features a climate marked by dry summers while average temperature varies with altitude marking different climate subtypes Most of the region including the capital has a climate intermediate between a hot summer mediterranean climate Koppen Csa and a cold semi arid climate Koppen BSk with a dry summer and a moderate to low amount of rain primarily distributed throughout the rest of the year in the case of the capital roughly an equinoctial pattern of precipitation maximums as well as summer temperature averages over 22 C with daily maximums consistently surpassing 30 C in July and August The areas at a higher altitude close to the Sierra de Guadarrama feature a colder climate also generally with more precipitation particularly in the winter with climate subtypes ranging from the Csa to the warm summer mediterranean climate Koppen Csb and the dry summer continental climate Koppen Dsb on the peaks of the mountain range with temperature averages below freezing point during January and February in the later case See also Climate of MadridHistory EditPrehistory Edit Prehistoric vessel from Ciempozuelos exhibited at the National Archaeological Museum of Spain in Madrid The territory of the Community of Madrid has been populated since the Lower Paleolithic mainly in the valleys between the rivers of Manzanares Jarama and Henares where several archaeological findings have been made Some notable discoveries of the region the bell shaped vase of Ciempozuelos between 1970 and 1470 BCE 27 from the Bell beaker culture Romans and Visigoths Edit A mosaic of the House of Dionysus in Complutum During the Roman Empire the region was part of the Citerior Tarraconese province except for the south west portion of it which belonged to Lusitania It was crossed by two important Roman roads the via xxiv xxix joining Astorga to laminium and via xxv which joined Emerita Augusta and Caesaraugusta and contained some important conurbations The city of Complutum today Alcala de Henares became an important metropolis whereas Titulcia and Miaccum were important crossroad communities During the period of the Visigothic Kingdom the region lost its importance The population was scattered amongst several small towns Complutum was designated the bishopric seat in the 5th century by orders of Asturio archbishop of Toledo but this event was not enough to bring back the lost splendor of the city Al Andalus Edit The centre of the peninsula the Middle Mark of Al Andalus or aṯ Ṯaḡr al Awsaṭ became a strategic military post in the 11th century The Muslim rulers created a defensive system of fortresses and towers all across the region with which they tried to stop the advance of the Christian kingdoms of the north The fortress of Mayrit Madrid was built somewhere between 860 and 880 AD as a walled precinct where a military and religious community lived and which constituted the foundation of the city It soon became the most strategic fortress in defense of the city of Toledo above the fortresses of Talamanca and Qal at Abd Al Salam Alcala de Henares In 1083 or 1085 Alfonso VI took the city of Madrid in the context of his wider campaign to conquer Toledo 28 Alcala de Henares fell in 1118 in a new period of Castilian annexation City walls of Buitrago del Lozoya Christian repopulation Edit The recently conquered lands by the Christian kingdoms were desegregated into several constituencies as a consequence of a long process of repopulation that took place over the course of four centuries The feudal and ecclesiastical lords came into constant conflict with the different councils that had been granted the authority to repopulate Castle of Manzanares el Real In the 13th century Madrid was the only town of the current day region that preserved its own juridical personality citation needed at first with the Old Fuero Charter and later with the Royal Fuero granted by Alfonso X of Castile in 1262 and ratified by Alfonso XI in 1339 On the other hand the town of Buitrago del Lozoya Alcala de Henares and Talamanca de Jarama which were rapidly repopulated until that century were under the dominion of the feudal or ecclesiastical lords Specifically Alcala de Henares was under the hands of the archbishopric of Toledo and remained so until the 19th century Around the town of Madrid an administrative territory was created known as Tierra de Madrid Land of Madrid the origin of the province that included the areas of the current municipalities of San Sebastian de los Reyes Cobena Las Rozas de Madrid Rivas Vaciamadrid Torrejon de Velasco Alcorcon San Fernando de Henares and Grinon Madrid was in constant strife with the powerful council of Segovia whose jurisdiction extended south of the Guadarrama Mountains they both fought for the control of the Real de Manzanares a large comarca shire that was finally given to the House of Mendoza Castilian monarchs showed a predilection for the center of the peninsula with abundant forests and game El Pardo was a region visited frequently by kings since the time of Henry III in the 14th century The Catholic Monarchs started the construction of the Royal Palace of Aranjuez dubious discuss 29 In the 16th century San Lorenzo de El Escorial was built and became another royal site of the province Early modern period Edit Panoramic view of Madrid a 16th century work by Anton van den Wyngaerde The town of Madrid which was one of the eighteen cities with the right to vote in the Cortes of Castile was seat of the Courts themselves on several occasions and was the residence of several monarchs amongst them the emperor Charles I who reformed and expanded the Alcazar or Castle of the city Alcala de Henares grew in importance as cultural center since the foundation by the Cardinal Cisneros of its university Philip II supervises the works on El Escorial by Luca Giordano In 1561 King Philip II made Madrid the capital of the Hispanic Monarchy The surrounding territories became economically subordinated to the town itself even beyond the present day limits of the Community of Madrid But it was not a unified region as several lords and churches had jurisdiction over their own autonomous territories During the 18th century the fragmented administration of the region was not solved despite several attempts During the reign of Philip V the intendencia was created as a political and administrative division Nonetheless the intendencia of Madrid did not fully solve the problem and the region was still fragmented into several small dominions even though some processes were centralized This territorial dispersion had a negative effect on its economic growth while the town of Madrid received economic resources from the entire country as the capital the surrounding territories in hands of noblemen or the clergy became impoverished During the eighteenth century the town of Madrid was transformed through several grandiose buildings and monuments as well as through the creation of many social economic and cultural institutions some of which are still operating Madrid grew to a population of 156 672 inhabitants by the end of the eighteenth century Province Edit Manufacturing of big clay pots in Colmenar de Oreja by Ulpiano Checa The current territory of the region was roughly defined with the 1833 reorganization of Spain into provinces promoted by Javier de Burgos in which the province of Madrid was classified in the region of New Castile lacking the later any sort of administrative institution at the regional level nonetheless The government institution at the provincial level was the deputation diputacion In addition to the former body another provincial political authority was the civil governor discretionarily designated by the central government A modest change to the 1833 provincial boundaries that concerned Madrid took place in 1850 when the small municipality of Valdeavero 19 km2 until then part of the province of Guadalajara joined the province of Madrid 30 Construction of the bridge aqueduct of the chasm part of the Canal de Isabel II in 1854 by Charles Clifford One of the limits so far for the growth of the capital water supply experienced a substantial change in 1858 following the arrival to the city of Madrid of water from the Lozoya River with the inauguration of the bringing of the Canal de Isabel II 31 Female workers in a phone line factory managed by Ericsson in Getafe 1924 In decadence since the middle 18th century the city of Alcala de Henares experienced a relative demographic and economic upturn in the second half of the 19th century based on its newly acquired condition of military outpost to which an embrionary industrial nucleus was also added 32 During the reign of Ferdinand VII the south of the province was made up of small agricultural settlements of limited population Among them Getafe stood out in population 33 and became the seat of a judicial district in 1834 34 with the main economic activity of the former jurisdiction still being non irrigated agriculture 34 Rail transport arrived in 1851 with the Strawberry train the railway connecting Madrid and Aranjuez Ruins of the headquarters of the provincial deputation in 1939 During the Spanish Civil War 1936 1939 the territory was divided by the battlefront with the southwest of the province controlled by the rebel faction and the capital as well as a great part of the rest of the province by the side loyal to the Republic The city of Madrid was target of many bombings during the conflict becoming the first big city in Europe to suffer such systematic and massive air attacks 35 Since the 1970s a process of a population transfer from the capital to the rest of municipalities of the metropolitan area emerged This process accelerated when the autonomous community was founded and it took placed along a strong decrease of birth rates 36 Autonomous community Edit The creation of the contemporary Community of Madrid was preceded by an intense political debate Autonomous communities were to be created by one or more provinces with a distinct regional identity Since the 1833 provincial organization Madrid was part of the historical region of New Castile along with the provinces of Guadalajara Toledo Cuenca and Ciudad Real Thus it was first planned that the province of Madrid would be part of the future community of Castile La Mancha which was roughly similar to New Castile with the addition of Albacete but with some special considerations as the home of the national capital 37 The other provinces that were to become part of the autonomous community of Castile La Mancha expressed fears of inequality if Madrid were associated with them These provinces opposed such a special status and after considering other options for Madrid like its inclusion in the community of Castile and Leon or its constitution as an entity similar to a federal district 37 it was decided that the province of Madrid would become a single province autonomous community by virtue of Article 144 of the Constitution which empowers the Cortes to create an autonomous community in the nation s interest even if it did not satisfy the requirement of having a distinct historical identity Thus in 1983 the Community of Madrid was constituted and a Statute of Autonomy was approved taking over all the competences of the old Diputacion Provincial and the new ones the Statute considered Sunset in Las Tablas in 2015 During the first 25 years of the autonomic period this autonomous community accounted for the biggest economic growth in Spain becoming a platform for the internationalisation of the Spanish economy 38 featuring a marked preponderance of the service sector 39 By the turn of the 21st century a strong boost to the construction sub sector also took place 40 During this period the Community of Madrid stood out due to its role as centre for welcoming immigration 41 due to its condition as transport node vis a vis the Spanish geography 42 and due to its condition as scientific and cultural centre of the country 43 Government and politics EditAutonomous institutions of government Edit See also Assembly of Madrid President of the Community of Madrid and Government of the Community of Madrid Hemicycle of the Assembly of Madrid the autonomous legislature A meeting of the Council of Government presided by former President Angel Garrido Like the rest of autonomous communities the Community of Madrid is organized politically within a parliamentary system that is the head of government known as the president is dependent on the direct support from the autonomous legislature whose members elect him by a majority The Statute of Autonomy of the Madrid Autonomous Community is the fundamental organic law in conjunction with and subordinated to the Spanish constitution The Statute of Autonomy establishes that the powers through which the self government of the autonomous community is exercised are the following institutions The Assembly of Madrid 44 a directly elected body represents the people of Madrid and exercises the legislative power of the community in approving and supervising the budget and in coordinating and controlling the actions of the government The seat of the Assembly is located in Madrid in the district of Puente de Vallecas The members of the legislature currently 132 are elected through proportional representation with closed party lists and a 5 electoral threshold in a single region wide constituency n 1 The last election took place on 26 May 2019 The President of the Community of Madrid is the supreme representative of the autonomous community and the ordinary representation of the State It presides and heads the activities of the Madrilenian autonomous government designates and dismisses the vice presidents and the ministers consejeros which conform an executive cabinet The investiture of the regional president who is nominated as candidate by the Speaker of the Assembly among its members after holding consultations is voted by a qualified majority of the plenary of the legislature or failing to achieve the former a simple majority of yes votes in a second round voting 48 hours later and then formally appointed by the King through a Royal Decree The seat of the Presidency is the Real Casa de Correos located at the Puerta del Sol at the center of Madrid 46 Since 2019 the president is Isabel Diaz Ayuso of the People s Party PP The Government of the Community of Madrid is the collegiate body that heads the politics and the executive and administrative powers of the community The incumbent Council of Government comprises the President the Vice President assuming additional competences and twelve more ministers Delegation of the Central Government Edit Since the creation of autonomous communities the Government of Spain appoints a special representative to each region the Government Delegate part of the Peripheral State Administration Unlike other single province autonomous communities the Government also appoints the Government Sub delegate the successor office to the provincial civil governor The seats of both the delegation and the subdelegation are located at the Borghetto Palace es in Madrid 47 48 Administrative divisions Edit Main article List of municipalities in the Community of Madrid The Community of Madrid following the long standing form of local government in Spain is divided administratively into 179 municipalities featuring 801 towns and entities Its municipalities comprise 2 2 of the Spanish territory 8110 It is ranked 23rd amongst Spanish provinces in number of municipalities which is slightly above average n 2 The average is 165 municipalities by province The ayuntamiento presided by its alcalde Mayor is the formal institution charged with the government and administration of most municipalities The municipal councillors forming the deliberative assembly of the ayuntamiento are directly elected through proportional representation with closed party lists and a 5 electoral threshold In turn the councillors are charged with electing from among themselves by default candidates are the head of each electoral list the Mayor presiding over the ayuntamiento There are twenty judicial districts partidos judiciales whose seats correspond to the municipalities of Alcala de Henares Alcobendas Alcorcon Aranjuez Arganda del Rey Collado Villalba Colmenar Viejo Coslada Fuenlabrada Getafe Leganes Madrid Majadahonda Mostoles Navalcarnero Parla San Lorenzo de El Escorial Torrejon de Ardoz Torrelaguna Valdemoro and Valdaracete the historical judicial district of San Martin de Valdeiglesias is no longer a judicial district as of 1985 These jurisdictions relate to the judicial administration with their seat having at least one court of first instance Economy Edit Distrito Telefonica the main headquarters of Telefonica one of the multinational corporations located in the region Madrid is the autonomous community with the highest income per capita in Spain at 35 041 42 800 in 2018 significantly above the national average and ahead of the Basque Country with 33 223 Navarra 31 389 and Catalonia 30 426 49 In that year the GDP growth was 1 0 49 Madrid has a GDP of 230 8 billion 281 billion as of 2018 making it the largest economy of Spain ahead of Catalonia where regional GDP amounted to 228 7 billion and the most populated Spanish region Andalusia 160 6 billion 50 51 Airbus A330 A340 horizontal stabilizer near the Getafe Airbus factory In 2005 the Community of Madrid was the main receptor of foreign investment in the country at 34 3 of the total The community ranks 34th amongst all European regions evaluated in 2002 and 50th amongst the most competitive cities regions worldwide 52 ahead of Barcelona and Valencia the other two largest metropolitan areas of Spain The strengths of the economy of the community are its low unemployment rate its high investment in research its high development and the added value services therein performed Its weaknesses include the low penetration of broadband and new technologies of information and an unequal male to female occupation 53 Madrid Trade Fair The service construction and industry sectors are prominent in Madrid s commercial productive structure According to the Directorio Central de Empresas Central Companies Directory of the INE Madrid s active businesses stand in third place nationally in terms of numbers as at 1 January 2006 The branches of activity with most active businesses are other business activities retail trade construction wholesale trade hospitality property activities land transport and pipeline transport Madrid s levels of industrial activity set it at fourth place in Spain The following areas predominate in terms of business numbers publishing and graphic arts manufacture of metal products except machinery and equipment manufacture of furniture and other manufacturing industries wearing apparel and fur industry and food product industry The province also boasts a higher concentration of high and medium technology activities and services than the rest of Spain This is the case in the following areas manufacture of office machinery and IT equipment manufacture of electronic products manufacture of radio equipment and devices manufacture of medical and surgical precision optical and timekeeping equipment and instruments post and telecommunications IT activities and research and development 54 Coslada Dry Port Regional authorities have put a notable effort in the development of logistics infrastructures in both the region of Madrid and the city proper These include the Coslada Dry Port the freight zone of the Madrid Barajas Airport Mercamadrid the Madrid Abronigal es logistics centre the Villaverde s Logistics Centre and the Vicalvaro s Logistics Centre to name a few 55 Overall logistics companies has greatly developed along the A 2 highway Coslada San Fernando de Henares Torrejon de Ardoz in the eastern part of the region the so called Henares Corridor to become what has come to be termed as the golden mile of logistics and e commerce in Spain 56 57 The unemployment rate stood at 10 0 in 2019 and was lower than the national average 58 Unemployment rate December data 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 20196 5 6 4 10 0 14 5 15 5 18 0 19 3 20 5 18 0 16 5 14 6 13 8 11 5 10 0 Demographics EditHistorical populationYearPop 1900775 034 1910878 641 13 4 19201 067 637 21 5 19301 383 591 29 6 19401 579 793 14 2 19501 926 311 21 9 19602 606 254 35 3 19703 792 561 45 5 19814 687 083 23 6 19914 947 555 5 6 20015 423 384 9 6 20116 489 680 19 7 20216 726 640 3 7 Source INE Population density by municipalityaccording to the Institute for Statistics ofthe Community of Madrid 2017 600 km 200 600 km 90 200 km 20 90 km lt 20 km The Community of Madrid is the third most populous region in Spain after Andalusia and Catalonia and the most populous province with 6 661 949 inhabitants Population density is 829 62 hab km2 much higher than the national average of 93 8 hab km2 Population density varies with the community itself the municipality of Madrid has a density of 5 300 hab km2 whereas the Sierra Norte has a population density of less than 10 hab km2 The vast majority of the population lives in the capital and its metropolitan area which is the most populated in Spain Madrid also has the greatest population density in Spain Its inhabitants are mainly concentrated in the capital which is the Spanish city with the highest resident population and in a series of municipalities Mostoles Alcala de Henares Fuenlabrada Leganes Alcorcon Getafe Torrejon de Ardoz and Alcobendas as opposed to in rural areas with low population density Its citizens have diverse origins and Madrid is the province with the highest number of residents born outside its territory and with the largest foreign population 13 32 dubious discuss It is a focus of attraction for those migrating for reasons of employment Population growth in Madrid is mainly due to the arrival of foreigners 59 For most of its history the Community of Madrid has been overwhelmingly Catholic 60 with minority Jewish and Muslim populations The Community of Madrid is the EU Region with the highest average life expectancy at birth The average life expectancy was 82 2 years for males and 87 8 for females in 2016 61 Largest municipalities in the Community of Madrid INE 1 January 2020 62 Rank Pop Rank Pop Madrid Mostoles 1 Madrid 3 334 730 11 Las Rozas 96 113 Alcala de Henares Fuenlabrada2 Mostoles 210 309 12 San Sebastian de los Reyes 91 2243 Alcala de Henares 197 562 13 Rivas Vaciamadrid 90 9734 Fuenlabrada 194 514 14 Pozuelo de Alarcon 87 1655 Leganes 191 114 15 Coslada 81 3916 Getafe 185 180 16 Valdemoro 77 2707 Alcorcon 172 384 17 Majadahonda 72 1558 Parla 133 482 18 Collado Villalba 64 3789 Torrejon de Ardoz 132 853 19 Aranjuez 60 33210 Alcobendas 118 417 20 Boadilla del Monte 56 734 Foreign populationAs of 2018 the region had a foreign population of 826 456 63 The largest groups of foreigners were those of Romanian Moroccan Chinese Colombian Ecuadorian Venezuelan and Italian citizenship 63 Foreign population by country of citizenship 2018 63 Nationality Population Romania 163 730 Morocco 76 697 China 59 757 Colombia 39 523 Ecuador 37 517 Venezuela 29 017 Italy 28 787 Peru 27 826 Dominican Republic 25 312 Paraguay 24 928Other 313 362Education EditMain article Education in Spain State Education in Spain is free and compulsory from six to sixteen years of age The current education system is called LOMLOE Ley Organica 3 2020 de 29 de diciembre por la que se modifica la Ley Organica 2 2006 de 3 de mayo de Educacion 64 Levels Edit Secondary school in Torrejon de Ardoz From three to six years Educacion Infantil Preparatory School From six to twelve years Educacion Primaria Primary School years first through sixth From twelve to sixteen years Educacion Secundaria Obligatoria Compulsory Secondary School years first through fourth From sixteen to seventeen years Bachillerato Post Compulsory School years first and secondChildren from three to five years old in Spain have the option of attending the pre school stage which is non compulsory and free for all students It is regarded as an integral part of the education system with infantil classes in almost every primary school There are some separate Colegios Infantiles or nursery schools Spanish students aged six to sixteen undergo primary and secondary school education which are compulsory and free of charge Successful students are awarded a Secondary Education Certificate which is necessary for entering further optional education as is Bachillerato for their University or Formacion Profesional vocational studies Once students have finished their Bachillerato they can take their University Entrance Exam Pruebas de Acceso a la Universidad popularly called Selectividad which differs greatly from region to region The secondary stage of education is normally referred to by its initials e g ESO or Educacion Secundaria Obligatoria for secondary education EducaMadrid is the educational platform that offers teachers and students in these and other non university studies professional studies arts languages adult education and others a virtual environment with all the necessary Internet services in compliance with GDPR It is safe free sustainable and based on Open source software Universities Edit Madrid is home to a large number of public and private universities Faculty of Medicine of the Complutense University of Madrid in the Ciudad Universitaria campus The Complutense University of Madrid is one of the most prestigious and the largest university in Spain and one of the oldest universities in the world It has 10 000 staff members and a student population of 117 000 Nearly all academic staff are Spanish It is located on two campuses in the university quarter Ciudad Universitaria at Moncloa in Madrid and in Somosaguas 65 The Complutense University of Madrid was founded in Alcala de Henares old Complutum by Cardinal Cisneros in 1499 Nevertherless its real origin dates back from 1293 when King Sancho IV of Castile built the General Schools of Alcala which would give rise to Cisnero s Complutense University During the course of 1509 1510 five schools were already operative Artes y Filosofia Arts amp Philosophy Teologia Theology Derecho Canonico Canonical Laws Letras Liberal Arts and Medicina Medicine In 1836 during the reign of Isabel II the University was moved to Madrid where it took the name of Central University and was located at San Bernardo Street Subsequently in 1927 a new University City Ciudad Universitaria was planned to be built in the district of Moncloa Aravaca The Spanish Civil War turned the University City into a war zone with several faculties sustaining severe damage during the conflict By 1943 the Central University started to be known as the University of Madrid 66 In 1970 the University of Madrid was renamed to Complutense University of Madrid It was then when the new campus at Somosaguas was created in order to house the new School of Social Sciences The old Alcala campus was reopened as the independent University of Alcala in 1977 67 The Severo Ochoa Centre for Molecular Biology in the campus of the Autonomous University of Madrid Another important university is the Autonoma perhaps Spain s best university for research along with the Complutense was instituted under the leadership of the famous physicist Nicolas Cabrera The Autonoma is widely recognised for its research strengths in theoretical physics Known simply as la Autonoma in Madrid its main site is the Cantoblanco Campus situated 15 kilometers to the north of the capital M 607 and close to the municipal areas of Madrid namely Alcobendas San Sebastian de los Reyes Tres Cantos and Colmenar Viejo Located on the main site are the Rectorate building and the Faculties of Science Philosophy and Fine Arts Law Economic Science and Business Studies Psychology Higher School of Computing Science and Engineering and the Faculty of Teacher Training and Education The Medical School is located outside the main site and beside the Hospital Universitario La Paz 68 The Magerit supercomputer located in the Supercomputing and Visualization Center of Madrid part of the Technical University of Madrid and located in Pozuelo de Alarcon Other local universities among many others are the Technical University of Madrid as the result of merging the different Technical Schools of Engineering the Universidad de Alcala de Henares founded in 1499 the Carlos III whose philosophy is to create responsible free thinking people with a sensitivity to social problems and an involvement in the concept of progress based on freedom justice and tolerance and the Universidad Pontificia Comillas involved in a number of academic exchange programmes work practice schemes and international projects with over 200 Higher Education Institutions in Europe South America North America and Asia Other universities in Madrid Rey Juan Carlos University public Alfonso X El Sabio University Universidad Antonio de Nebrija Universidad Camilo Jose Cela Universidad Francisco de Vitoria Universidad Europea de Madrid and Universidad San Pablo all of them private Madrid is also home to the Escuela Superior de Musica Reina Sofia the Real Conservatorio Superior de Musica de Madrid and many other private educational institutions Transportation EditAir Edit Main article Barajas International Airport Barajas Airport Madrid is served by Barajas International Airport Barajas is the main hub of Iberia Airlines and consequently serves as the main gateway to the Iberian peninsula from Europe the Americas and the rest of the world Current passenger volumes range upwards of 52 million passengers per year putting it in the top 10 busiest airports in the world 69 Given annual increases close to 10 a new fourth terminal has been constructed It has significantly reduced delays and doubled the capacity of the airport to more than 70 million passengers per year Two additional runways have also been constructed making Barajas a fully operational four runway airport Commuter rail Edit Main article Cercanias Madrid Commuter rail station in Parla Cercanias Madrid is the commuter rail service that serves Madrid the capital of Spain and its metropolitan area It is operated by Cercanias the commuter rail division of Renfe the former monopoly of rail services in Spain The system is infamous for being the target of 11 March 2004 Madrid train bombings The attacks triggered a small reduction in the ridership of the system but it is still the most used and most profitable 70 by 2004 of the commuter rail services in Spain The total length spans 339 1 km 210 7 mi Spain s railway system the Red Nacional de Ferrocarriles Espanoles Renfe operates the vast majority of Spain s railways In Madrid the main rail terminals are Atocha in the south and Chamartin in the north High speed rail Edit AVE trains in Atocha Main article AVE The crown jewel of Spain s next decade of infrastructure construction is the Spanish high speed rail network Alta Velocidad Espanola AVE Currently an ambitious plan includes the construction of a 7 000 kilometre 4 300 mi network centered on Madrid The overall goal is to have all important provincial cities be no more than four hours away from Madrid and no more than six hours away from Barcelona As of 2008 AVE high speed trains link Madrid Atocha station to Seville Malaga and Toledo in the south Valencia Albacete Cuenca and Alicante in the east and to Zaragoza Tarragona Girona Leida Huesca and Barcelona in the north east AVE trains also arrive to Segovia Valladolid Zamora and Leon Already connected by tunnels used by conventional rail lines a tunnel link connecting the Atocha and Chamartin stations with high speed rail services is finished but as of August 2019 yet to be inaugurated 71 Metro Edit Madrid s metro map Main article Madrid Metro Serving the city s population of some six million the Madrid Metro is one of the most extensive and fastest growing metro networks in the world 72 With the addition of a loop serving suburbs to Madrid s south west Metrosur it is now the second largest metro system in Western Europe second only to London s Underground In 2007 Madrid s metro system was expanded and it currently runs over 322 kilometers 200 mi of line The province of Madrid is also served by an extensive commuter rail network called Cercanias Metro fees are regulated by the Consorcio Regional de Transportes de Madrid CRTM jointly with fees for commuter rail bus transport and light rail Culture EditSymbols Edit The flag coat of arms and hymn of the Community of Madrid were set through the regional Law 2 1983 published in the official regional gazette on 24 December 1983 73 FlagMain article Flag of the Community of Madrid Flag of the Community of Madrid waving at the outdoors of a building The flag is described as follows the flag of the Community of Madrid is crimson red with seven silver five pointed stars arranged 4 and 3 on the centre of the canvas 73 According to the law the flag should wave both at the outdoors occupying a preferential place next to the flag of Spain and at the indoors of every public building of the autonomous administration as well as every public building of the municipal administrations located within the territory of the autonomous community Coat of armsMain article Coat of arms of the Community of Madrid The arms are described as follows The coat of arms of the Community of Madrid features just one partition gules and on it two paired embattled turreted castles or with port and windows tinctured azure masoned sable surmounted by seven five pointed stars argent arranged four and three on chief 74 The crest describes the heraldic representation of the royal crown of Spain HymnMain article Hymn of the Community of Madrid The official anthem was defined along the flag and coat of arms 73 However it has very limited institutional use and thus it is barely known Cuisine Edit Cheese from Campo Real es Although the region does not produce enough food to be self sufficient the varied territory of the region outside the urbanised centre provides enough food commodities to create its own cuisine cheese of Campo Real vine with Vinos de Madrid DO strawberries and aspargus from Aranjuez muskmelons from Villaconejos artichokes from Ciempozuelos judiones from Montejo de la Sierra garlic from Chinchon chickpeas from Navalcarnero lentils from Colmenar de Oreja cauliflower from Grinon or a number of vegetables from the Alberche Valley 75 Main article Cuisine of the Community of Madrid In addition due to the rich restaurant business in the region all the regional cuisines of Spain are represented in Madrid according to Jose del Corral Raya es 76 As the madrilenian cuisine has absorbed much from the rest of regional cuisines of Spain there is ambiguity when it comes to define the former however dishes such as the cocido madrileno the potaje de garbanzos the callos a la madrilena es the sopa de ajo or the tortilla de patatas are considered part of the madrilenian cuisine regardless of their geographical specificity 77 By April 2011 the region had over 40 0000 bars 2 700 coffee shops and nearly 10 000 restaurants 78 Religion Edit Catholic procession of the Virgen de Gracia at the plaza de la Cebada Madrid c 1741 The majority of the religious population is Catholic Roman Catholicism is by far the largest religion in Community of Madrid According to a 2019 CIS poll 18 9 of the surveyed people in the region identified as practising Catholic and 43 0 as non practising Catholic 79 The most important religious minorities are evangelicals Jews and Muslims 80 Hare Krishna guru Giriraja Swami singing at the 1998 Ratha Yatra festival in Madrid Among the evangelical denominations the following denominations stand out Spanish Evangelical Church IEE several Presbiterian or Reformed Churches the Spanish Reformed Episcopal Church IERE Baptist and Free churches Union Evangelica Bautista Espanola Federacion de las Iglesias Evangelicas Independientes de Espana the Asambleas de Hermanos Pentecostal Churches Asambleas de Dios Iglesia de la Biblia Abierta Iglesia Filadelfia Iglesia Cuadrangular Charismatic churches Iglesias de Buenas Noticias Asamblea Cristiana Asamblea para la Evangelizacion Mundial para Cristo minor churches such as The Salvation Army Mennonite Churches and Hermanos en Cristo non grouped evangelical churches and adventist churches 81 Pentecostal churches have lately experienced a notable growth due to the arrival of immigrants from Latin America 82 Evangelicals also have a notable following among the Romani population 83 The Muslim population includes the first contemporary Muslims in Spain who came from Middle East and had middle class university background converts chiefly sunni Muslims and representatives of a second arrival of Muslim economic migrants with more of an economic migrant profile than the first wave 84 Jehovah s Witnesses literature in Madrid Since the second half of the 20th century the Jewish population in the region grew due to both Sephardi Jews that came from the MENA as well as exiles from Latin America mostly Argentinians primordially Ashkenazim 85 There are also Greek Romanian and Russian orthodox Christians Jehovah Witnesses 15 031 according to 2001 estimations and Mormons 6 700 according to 2007 estimations 86 There are some buddhists the majority of which have Spanish citizenship and are from the middle to uppermiddle class 87 and small minorities of believers of religions of vedic origin hinduism primordially Sindhis 88 sikhism Hare Krishna and Brahma Kumaris There are a scarce amount of believers of the Bahaʼi Faith Other confessions often derided as cults sectas in the country such as the Unification movement and Scientology have a marginal presence 89 Feasts Edit Official feasts of the 2 de Mayo The regional day is the 2 May commemorating the Dos de Mayo Uprising of the citizens of Madrid against the French occupation in 1808 that triggered the wave of insurrections marking the beginning of the Peninsular War It is a public holiday in the Community of Madrid since 1984 when it was approved by the regional legislature and sanctioned as law 90 A floral tribute is traditionally offered to the fallen heroes by the regional authorities The ceremony of presentation of commemorative medals to stand out individuals also take place on this day in the Royal House of the Post Office 91 Sports Edit See also Sport in Madrid Practice of padel tennis in Madrid According to a 2010 study by the National Sports Council CSD madrilenians led the country in terms of grassroots sports practice 92 Roughly a 52 of the regional population between 15 and 75 years old practised one sports modality while a 10 of the population between 15 and 75 years old practised two or more sports 92 The most practised sports modalities were fitness gymnastics 43 6 football 22 1 swimming 20 7 cycling 19 6 jogging running 16 2 padel 9 9 athletics 8 3 basketball 6 9 other football modalities 6 6 hiking 6 1 martial arts 4 5 body building 3 5 shooting hunting 0 9 and recreational fishing 0 2 92 Association football is the most popular sport in Spain in terms of passive following The Madrid Football Federation is the governing body of the sport of football in region The Community of Madrid has its own autonomous team the Madrid autonomous football team taking part in friendly fixtures It currently has 2 top flight men s football teams Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid The first of them Real Madrid has become one of the most valuable sports teams in the planet 93 The regional administration had its own big track and field stadium La Peineta inaugurated in 1994 It was later transferred to the Madrid City Council becoming the center of two unsuccessful bids of the city of Madrid to the Summer Olympics International relations EditTwinningBeijing China 2005 94 95 Notes Edit The elections have normally followed the default electoral calendar set for most autonomous communities with the exception of Catalonia the Basque Country Galicia and Andalusia The only exception to this occurred in 2003 in which due to the refusal of two socialist deputies to follow party discipline after the May election prevented the formation of any government 45 Therefore new elections were held in October outside the established electoral calendar In Madrid the average area of a municipality is 44 8 km2 17 3 sq mi slightly larger than the national average Madrid is by far the largest Between 1948 and 1954 the city annexed the neighboring municipalities of Chamartin de la Rosa Fuencarral Barajas El Pardo Hortaleza Canillas Canillejas Vicalvaro Vallecas Villaverde Carabanchel Alto Carabanchel Baja and Aravaca The five largest municipalities by area are Madrid 605 8 km2 233 9 sq mi Aranjuez 189 1 km2 73 0 sq mi Colmenar Viejo 182 6 km2 70 5 sq mi Rascafria 150 3 km2 58 0 sq mi and Manzanares el Real 128 4 km2 49 6 sq mi The smallest municipalities by area are Casarrubuelos 5 3 km2 2 0 sq mi La Serna del Monte 5 4 km2 2 1 sq mi Pelayos de la Presa 7 6 km2 2 9 sq mi Madarcos 8 5 km2 3 3 sq mi and Torrejon de la Calzada 9 0 km2 3 5 sq mi References Edit Contabilidad Regional de Espana Base 2010 Producto Interior Bruto regional Serie 2010 2018 PDF Instituto Nacional de Estadistica 29 April 2019 Sub national HDI Area Database Global Data Lab hdi globaldatalab org Retrieved 13 September 2018 La economia de la Comunidad de Madrid una de las mas potentes y dinamicas del pais Archived from the original on 17 December 2009 Retrieved 9 April 2008 Madrid supera a Catalunya como comunidad con mas PIB La Vanguardia in Spanish 20 December 2019 Retrieved 15 May 2020 PIB por Comunidad Autonoma Expansion com Accessed 31 Julio 2016 a b Gallego Calvo 2011 p 414 Ayllon Lopez amp Barbera Luna 2011 p 58 Lara Zabia Montoro Louvier amp Mingot Martin 2011 p 362 Cobos Suarez amp Martin Sanz 2011 pp 88 90 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