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Despite its outwardly modern appearance, Alcalá de Henares is a historic city with a glorious past. Its discreetly hidden medieval center still abounds with colleges, monasteries, and palaces, and its Calle Mayor (main street) is among the oldest in Madrid province. When a university was founded here in the 15th century, Alcalá became a cultural and intellectual center. Europe's first polyglot Bible (supposedly with footnotes in the original Greek and Hebrew) was published here in 1517, but the town declined during the 1800s when the university moved to Madrid. Today, Alcalá is one of the main centers of North American academics in Spain, cooperating with the Fulbright Commission, Michigan State University, and Madrid's Washington Irving Center. Overall, the city has taken on new life. Commuters have turned it into a virtual suburb, dubbing it "the bedroom of Madrid." (Prominent among its non-commuting inhabitants is the perennial community of highly urbanized storks that nonchalantly squat in their roof- and spire-top nests or, wide winged, wheel effortlessly overhead.)
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Ifema
Parque Ferial Juan Carlos I Madrid 28042 Spain Distance: 10.7 mi. (from destination center)
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4 Plaza de la Independencia
Madrid, Spain Distance: 17.5 mi. (from destination center)
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Palacio de Villahermosa
Paseo del Prado, 8 Madrid, Spain Distance: 17.9 mi. (from destination center) Description: Until around 1985, the contents of this museum virtually overflowed the premises of a legendary... Read More
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