Atocha
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Madrid - Spain

Museo del Prado

The Museo del Prado is the main Spanish national art museum, located in central Madrid. It features one of the world's finest collections of European art, from the 12th century to the early 19th century, based on the former Spanish Royal Collection, and unquestionably the best single collection of Spanish art. Founded as a museum of paintings and sculpture, it also contains important collections of other types of works.

Located at 40.4139, -3.6925 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía

The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS, also called the Museo Reina Sofía, Queen Sofia Museum, El Reina Sofia, or simply The Sofia) is Spain's national museum of 20th century art. The museum was officially inaugurated on September 10, 1992 and is named for Queen Sofia of Spain.

Located at 40.4089, -3.69444 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Cajal Institute

The Cajal Institute in Madrid is the largest neuroscience research center in Spain. The histologist Santiago Ramón y Cajal founded the Laboratorio de Investigaciones Biológicas in 1902 which later became the Instituto Cajal (Cajal Institute) upon his retirement in 1922. The scientific activities of the institute follow a multidisciplinary approach and focus on fundamental questions of the structure and function of the nervous system.

Located at 40.4078, -3.68944 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Madrid Atocha railway station

Madrid Atocha (Spanish: Estación de Madrid Atocha, also named Madrid Puerta de Atocha) is the largest railway station in Madrid. It is the primary station serving commuter trains, intercity and regional trains from the south, and the AVE high speed trains from Barcelona, Saragosse, Seville and Valencia. These train services are run by the Spanish national rail company, Renfe.

Located at 40.4075, -3.69167 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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2004 Madrid train bombings

The Madrid train bombings (also known in Spain as 11-M) were nearly simultaneous, coordinated bombings against the Cercanías commuter train system of Madrid, Spain on the morning of 11 March 2004 – three days before Spain's general elections. The explosions killed 191 people and wounded 1,800. The official investigation by the Spanish judiciary found that the attacks were directed by an al-Qaeda-inspired terrorist cell, although no direct al-Qaeda participation has been established.

Located at 40.4067, -3.68944 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Madrid Royal Conservatory

The Madrid Royal Conservatory (Spanish: Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid) is a music college in Madrid, Spain.

Located at 40.4092, -3.69434 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Forest of Remembrance

The Forest of Remembrance (Spanish: Bosque del Recuerdo), formerly known as the Forest of the Departed (Bosque de los Ausentes), is a memorial garden located in the park of El Retiro in Madrid, Spain that commemorates the 191 civilian victims of the 2004 Madrid train bombings and the special forces agent who died in the attacks on 11 March 2004. The seven suicide bombers subsequently killed themselves on 3 April 2004 while under siege by security forces in their apartment block.

Located at 40.4119, -3.68694 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid

Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid (Spanish for Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid) is an 8-hectare botanical garden located at Plaza de Murillo, next to the Prado Museum in Madrid.

Located at 40.4111, -3.69167 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Retiro (Madrid)

Retiro is a district located at the southeast of the city centre of Madrid, Spain. Its area is of 5.38 km2, the number of houses is 46,512 and the population, as of 2005, was of 126,058.

Located at 40.4081, -3.67673 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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1977 Massacre of Atocha

The 1977 Massacre of Atocha was a neo-fascist attack during the Spanish transition to democracy after the death of Franco in 1975, killing five and injuring four. It was committed on January 24, 1977, in an office located on 55 Atocha Street near the Atocha railway station in Madrid, where specialists in labor law, members of the Workers' Commissions trade union (CCOO), and of the then-clandestine Communist Party of Spain (PCE), had gathered.

Located at 40.4097, -3.69361 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Atocha station memorial

The Atocha station memorial is a memorial monument located at Atocha station in Madrid, Spain, that commemorates the 191 victims of the 11 March 2004 Madrid train bombings and the special forces agent who died when seven suicide bombers blew themselves up on 3 April 2004. The 11 m tall (36 ft) cylinder stands above Atocha station, the destination of the four trains that were attacked.

Located at 40.4069, -3.68889 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Entrevías

Entrevías is a neighborhood in the district of Puente de Vallecas in the southeastern portion of Madrid, Spain. According to the National Institute of Statistics, the population of Entrevías in 2006 was 37,790.

Located at 40.4, -3.68333 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Wards of Madrid

Spanish National Observatory

The Spanish National Observatory is an astronomical observatory with several facilities in the Madrid area. The historic building in the Parque del Buen Retiro was built in 1790 as the Royal Observatory. Equipped with a Hershel telescope, it took over the purely astronomical work of the naval observatory, the Real Instituto y Observatorio de la Armada, in the south of the country.

Located at 40.411, -3.678 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Buen Retiro Palace

Buen Retiro Palace in Madrid was a large palace complex designed by the architect Alonso Carbonell (c. 1590–1660) and built on the orders of Philip IV of Spain as a secondary residence and place of recreation (hence its name). It was built in what was then the eastern limits of the city of Madrid. Today what little remains of its buildings and gardens forms the Retiro Park.

Located at 40.4137, -3.68169 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Golden Triangle of Art

The Golden Triangle of Art is made up of three important art museums that are close to each other in the centre of Madrid, Spain. The three art museums are: the Prado Museum, ("Museo del Prado" in Spanish), National Museum featuring pre-20th century art the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, National Museum featuring 20th century modern art the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, private museum, historical through contemporary art

Located at 40.4088, -3.6945 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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San Jerónimo el Real

San Jerónimo el Real (St. Jerome Royal Church) is a Roman Catholic church from the early 16th-century in central Madrid. The church, which has undergone numerous remodelings and restorations over the centuries is the remaining structure of the Hieronymite monastery that once stood beside the royal palace of Buen Retiro, of which a portion now serves as the Prado museum.

Located at 40.4145, -3.69114 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Madrid

Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be around 6.5 million. It is the third-largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan area is the third-largest in the European Union after London and Paris. The city spans a total of 604.3 km .

Located at 40.4, -3.68333 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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CaixaForum Madrid

CaixaForum Madrid is a modern art gallery (museum) in the centre of Madrid, Spain. It is sponsored by the Catalan-Balearic bank la Caixa and located next to the Paseo del Prado at number 36. It was constructed by the Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron from 2001 to 2007, which combined an old abandoned electrical station with new construction of floors which are encased with oxidized cast-iron, which was meant to be of a similar color and weight as the brick below.

Located at 40.411, -3.69308 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Basilica of Nuestra Señora de Atocha

The Royal Basilica of Our Lady of Atocha or Real Basílica de Nuestra Señora de Atocha is a large church in central Madrid on the avenue of the Ciudad de Barcelona, #3. It is one of the three basilica churches in Madrid, alongside the Our Father Jesús de Medinaceli and San Francisco el Grande. The buildings on the site have a long history. The original name refers to a lost icon from a chapel which was found among some high grasses, (called Tocha) during the time of the Reconquista.

Located at 40.4055, -3.6837 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Plaza del Emperador Carlos V

Plaza del Emperador Carlos V (Emperor Charles V square) is a square in the city of Madrid. It is named after Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, who also reigned in Spain as Charles I. However, it is commonly referred to as Plaza de Atocha, because it is where Madrid Atocha railway station is located.

Located at 40.4087, -3.69201 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Palacio de Cristal

The Palacio de Cristal ("Crystal Palace") is a glass and metal structure located in Madrid's Buen Retiro Park. It was built in 1887 to exhibit flora and fauna from the Philippines. The architect was Ricardo Velázquez Bosco. The Palacio de Cristal, in the shape of a Greek cross, is made almost entirely of glass set in an iron framework on a brick base, which is decorated with ceramics. Its cupola makes the structure over 22 metres high.

Located at 40.4136, -3.68206 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Arganzuela

Arganzuela is one of the 21 districts of the city of Madrid, Spain.

Located at 40.4027, -3.6954 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Teatro Valle-Inclán

The Teatro Valle-Inclán is a theatre in Madrid, Spain. Together with Teatro María Guerrero, it is the home of the Spanish Centro Dramático Nacional. It is located at plaza de Lavapiés, in the city centre, and opened in February 2006.

Located at 40.4082, -3.70044 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Atocha (Madrid)

Atocha is a central ward (barrio) of Madrid belonging to the district of Arganzuela.

Located at 40.4008, -3.68368 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Palacio de Velázquez

Palacio de Velázquez, or Velázquez Palace (sometimes referred to as Palacio de Exposiciones) is an exhibition hall located in Buen Retiro Park, Madrid, Spain. Originally known as the Palacio de la Minería, it was built in 1881-3 for the Exposición Nacional de Minería by architect Ricardo Velázquez Bosco, engineer Alberto Palacio, and ceramist Daniel Zuloaga. It functions as an arts and crafts gallery and is a listed Bien de Interés Cultural.

Located at 40.4152, -3.68199 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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