Madrid - The Capital since 1562..
The capital of Spain since 1562, is located on the geographic center of the Iberian Peninsula. Because of its central location and high altitude, the climate of Madrid is characterized by warm dry summers and cool winters.
This is Spain's headiest city, where the revelling lasts long into the night and life is seized with the teeth and both hands. Strangers quickly become friends, passion blooms in an instant, and visitors are swiftly addicted to the city's charms.
Madrid may not have the Roman origins that get city historians hot and bothered, and it may be a comparative parvenu, selected from rural obscurity to become the capital only in the second half of the 16th century, but it oozes an ebullience that rarely fails to move.
In Madrid a cosmopolitan air reigns, but it is also a fun loving city where life is lived to the fullest. Street life is Madrid's trademark, be it in the old Madrid or its sleek new districts and shopping areas such as the Salamanca District.