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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.
The capital of Spain, located in the heart
of the peninsula and right in the center of the Castillian plain
646 meters above sea level, has a population of over five million
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