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Metro Ligero. An LRV on Line ML-1 in 2011. The Metro Ligero ( Spanish pronunciation: [ˈmetɾo liˈxeɾo]; literally "Light Metro", meaning "Light Rail") is a semi-metro system in Madrid, Spain. It has three lines, [1] totaling 27.8 kilometres (17.3 mi), and 37 stations.
System map. The Madrid Metro (Spanish: Metro de Madrid) is a rapid transit system serving the city of Madrid, capital of Spain. The system is the 14th longest rapid transit system in the world, with a total length of 293 km (182 mi). Its growth between 1995 and 2007 put it among the fastest-growing networks in the world at the time.
Cristiano Ronaldo (pictured) is Real Madrid's all-time record goalscorer. Real Madrid Club de Fútbol is a professional association football club based in Madrid , Spain , that plays in La Liga . The club was formed in 1902 as Madrid Football Club and played its first competitive match on 13 May 1902 when it entered the final of the Campeonato ...
The population of Spain doubled during the twentieth century as a result of the demographic boom in the 1960s and early 1970s. After that time, the birth rate fell during the 1980s and Spain's population growth stalled. Many demographers have linked Spain's very low fertility rate to the country's lack of a family support policy.
The Alhambra ( / ælˈhæmbrə /, Spanish: [aˈlambɾa]; Arabic: الْحَمْرَاء, romanized : al-ḥamrāʼ ) is a palace and fortress complex located in Granada, Andalusia, Spain. It is one of the most famous monuments of Islamic architecture and one of the best-preserved palaces of the historic Islamic world, in addition to containing ...
2004 Madrid train bombings. The 2004 Madrid train bombings (also known in Spain as 11M) were a series of coordinated, nearly simultaneous bombings against the Cercanías commuter train system of Madrid, Spain, on the morning of 11 March 2004—three days before Spain's general elections. The explosions killed 193 people and injured around 2,050.
The history of Spain dates to contact between the pre-Roman peoples of the Mediterranean coast of the Iberian Peninsula made with the Greeks and Phoenicians. During Classical Antiquity, the peninsula was the site of multiple successive colonizations of Greeks, Carthaginians, and Romans. Native peoples of the peninsula, such as the Tartessos ...
