View of the 'skyline' of Madrid from the Casa de Campo
-Madrid It is the third most populous capital in Europe, behind Berlin and London. Added to your metropolitan area exceeds 6.5 million inhabitants.
- And the fourth in terms of green areas, with 35%. Each Madrilenian corresponds to 15.78 m2 of park. The Cottage It is a forest of 14,300,847 square meters. can be reached in a Cableway that crosses the Manzanares River at a height of 40 meters. It has a lake, a zoo, an aquarium and an amusement park.
- **The Prado Museum, which turns 200 this year**, is the twelfth most visited museum in the world. The Reina Sofía ranks 18th, the Thyssen Bornemisza 67th and Caixa Forum 80th.
- The Crystal Tower is the tallest building in the capital (and from Spain). It measures 249 meters, has 50 floors and, in the last one, houses the tallest vertical garden in Europe.
- In 2018 it received 10,207,572 visitors, 53.3% foreigners. The United States is the main issuing country, but China (ninth) is the one that has increased the most: 17%. The average stay is 2.4 nights and the cost is 243 euros per day. 97.58% would recommend Madrid.
- In Madrid there 798 hotels, with 44,897 rooms and a total of 86,497 beds. The average price for a double room is €95.06. In addition, there are 20,217 tourist homes advertised, 57% in the Centro district, with an average price of 127.8 euros.
- One in every 100 daily trips is made by bike. Besides 67 kilometers from the Green Belt, there are 294 kilometers of bike lanes and 85 bike sidewalks. Outside the capital, Cicla Madrid is a new network of 420-kilometre cycle routes divided into 17 stages, and with more than 1,200 kilometers of alternative routes.
- At Barajas Adolfo Suárez Airport they operate 81 airlines that connect Madrid with 218 destinations. It has 25% of the flights to Latin America.
- the planetarium has a 17.5 meter diameter dome in which projections of the cosmos are made for 245 spectators.
- In the capital there more than 3,000 restaurants and places to eat. Casa Botín, open since 1725, is the oldest in the world.
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Madrid in data