Madrid
Madrid is the capital of Spain, as well as the administrative center of the province of the same name and the autonomous community.
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Main article: Spain
Government
Health care
Clinics
Real estate
2021: Average monthly rent for a one-bedroom apartment in central Madrid - $1,020
Transport
2022: All diesel buses removed from Madrid streets
Madrid will be the first European city with a 100 per cent "clean" bus fleet, with the last diesel bus removed from its streets.
The Madrid City Council purchased 1,291 new buses and renewed 60% of the city's bus fleet. Now the bus fleet of the Spanish capital complies with the directive on environmentally friendly vehicles, which recognizes only such fuels as electricity, hydrogen, natural gas as clean.
By 2025, electric buses should make up 25% of Madrid's bus fleet.
2020: Madrid - in the top 10 cities in the world in the number of car sharing cars
Culture and art
Museums
Libraries
Вiblioteca de las Escuelas Pías. The building dates from the early eighteenth century and has vaulted ceilings.
Biblioteca Nacional de España. Copies of all books published in Spain are kept here.
The Biblioteca del Instituto del Patrimonio Cultural de España is one of the most unique and architecturally interesting in the country. Books are located in a circle.
Biblioteca Pública Benito Pérez Galdós - arched structures in the interior, a view of the garden from the window.
Biblioteca Pedro Salinas, the library also has a circular base and tables surround the curved shelving.
Ecology
2018: Tree cover - 39%
History
Main article: History of Spain
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1890
1778: Future distinguished engineer Augustine de Betancourt comes from the island of Tenerife to Madrid for training
In 1778, at the age of 20, Augustine de Betancourt left the Canary Islands forever and went to Madrid to study at the Royal College San Isidro.
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