The first inhabitants and names they did in the paleolithic in the rivera of our apprentice of river, The manzanares; later, came celtiberians, with their castros and its laws in verse, and as not, romans and the visigoths here had their villas of recreation, later came the Arabs, who gave name, wall and Alcázar to the city. Madrid muslim where began to live together moors, Jews and Christians, as did the pattern of the city, San Isidro. It is in this era when the legend and the Literature starts to write personal universal, as Almanzor hero muslim that way to Santiago de Compostela takes the city, or the own Cid that, as it could not be otherwise, it said that took the city in an afternoon bulls.
Born Here, who is perhaps his son most illustrious, Don Quixote, because Alonso Quijano, the Well, maybe he could arise in la mancha, but it was in the printing of the Atocha street of Madrid, where Don Miguel gave birth to their first copy of Don Quixote, and this event universal, could not be in another site more than in the district of the letters, where they lived, wrote and died the largest authors of the Spanish Golden Age and is in its corrales de comedias where developed these works that still alive, as in The famous corral of the Pacheca, in which solar, today, the theater continues to have its space.
In the century of romanticism, the letters and the culture of both sides of the Atlantic gathered in the streets and cafes, as well as their historic figures, as Rizal, or the Bolivar himself who married at the Parish in San Jose in the Street Gravina, or the Victor Hugo, which was set in the classroom of Madrileño college of San Anton, where Goya inmortalizo the last communion of its founder, and prayer in the garden, works less well known, of course, for example, the shootings of Two of May and disasters of war, echoes turbulent and tragic for the time.
Hemmingway, own music composed in his name, reveals that extraterritoriality of Madrid. The King Carlos III of Spain, which he was first was in Naples, who is said that was her best mayor of the city, among the many things that did it for her, as were the current museum del Prado, the Botanical Garden, the Royal Palace designed by Sabatini, commanded compose the teacher Boccherini a piece of music, entitled the night of Madrid, which today still heard in the carillon of the Career of San Jerome, compared to the eternal bronze lions of the Congress of Deputies, cast of the canyons caught in the wars in Africa. However, he had to be the Master Lara, who never stepped Madrid, which he composed their unofficial anthem, "Madrid", Chotis composed in Mexico after the spanish civil war in which he became famous he did not pass from the city during the fratricidal strife; the Teacher, after hearing long to the spanish exiles music that of: Madrid, Madrid, Madrid, in Mexico It is thought much in you, by the warmth of your verbenas, and by many good things that we dream from here...
Madrid is no more castellana that spanish, or more spanish than european, nor of course, more european than hispanoamericana, or more western than Madrid. Madrid is all it pass, it is all that in her living regardless of creed or color religions, simply, is passing through its streets and lives with their people. Madrid if someone is its eternal works in streets and sidewalks that never ends begin or end, as basic quality of a city in permanent transformation And that all welcomes.
This is why, for its discreet universality, fruit of their culture and its history, which Madrid has this distinct personality that includes all the territorial circles that extend all around, Castilla, Spain, Europe, Latin America, Africa..., and perhaps that is why, in this point, it confuses the verb to be and be, since it is where it is, in Madrid. And as we say the stages, from Madrid to heaven, and there a domain name to view. .Madrid.
