Different Ages of Madrid

Madrid, as a capital, has had some different ages as well as some different parts in its town. They are these:

1. Medieval Madrid. This little part of Madrid include The plaza Mayor (Main Square), Plaza del Marque de Comillas, Torre de los Lujanes and Iglesia de San Nicolas de los Negritas.
It starts in Plaza Mayor. It grow up becoming in the Madrid of Austrians with more buildings.
Finally, it finished  in the Modern Madrid, where the most important things in town are and it is known by everyone.
 http://www.aboutmadrid.com/madrid/itinerary1.asp

2. Madrid of Austrians. This period is also called the Madrid of the Haspburgs.  Felipe II was the first Haspburg King. It includes:
  -El Convento de las Calzadas Reales
  -Puente de Segovia
  -Plaza Mayor
  -Casa de la Panaderia
  -Plaza de la Villa
  -Real Monasterio de la Encarnación
http://en.rutamina.com/tourist/El-Madrid-de-los-Austrias

3. Bourbon Madrid. The Bourbon dynasty was established by Felipe V in 1770.
You can visit in this part of Madrid some of the following places:
 -Museo del Prado
 -Casón del Buen Retiro
 -Casa de Correos
 -Fuente de Cibeles
 -La Puerta de Alcalá
 -San Francisco el Grande
 http://www.esmadrid.com/en/portal.do?TR=C&IDR=465

4. Modern Madrid. (This Madrid include suburb parts all around the city centre (Leganes, Pinto, Parla, Pozuelo, Mostoles, Getafe,...) and new modern areas) Also, this part of Madrid is the most modern of it and you can visit:
 -Banco de España
 -La Bolsa (the Stock Exchange)
 -Palacio de Comunicaciones
 -Gran Vía
For more information, you can go into the links up there. There are some different information about the different ages of Madrid.

These 4 ages have too many different sort of life. As you can know, people in the Medieval Madrid are not going to have same life than people who live in the Modern Madrid.

Here you have a map with the different parts of it.



Legend of the map:
Yellow part: Medieval Madrid.
Red part: Modern Madrid.
Light blue part: Bourbon Madrid.
Green part: Madrid of Austrians

Madrid- In the beginning

HISTORY OF MADRID.

Madrid was not always as good as it is today. It was not even the capital of Spain until 1561. Madrid was called Madrid since moorish people built a wall called Majerit. It is not even a spanish word but with a spanish acent, they changed it to Madrid.  

It has had a lot of problems with reconquist in the capital.
Finally, everything became as normal as always and now times, Madrid is still the capital of the country.

 

This street which appear on the picture above, is one of the main streets in Madrid. You will see how it has changed with the past of the years on the next post.

General information

Contents:

1. The flag

2. The location

3. Two Patron Saints

THE FLAG.

Madrid flag is use to be confused  with the province of Madrid flag which has a red background with 7 white stars.

What is in the middle of this flag is Madrid seal. It has a bear standing at a madroño tree. This kind of tree is typical spanish. Some people don't know what is the point of that seal. there is a theory which is the following: it represents farming rights between the clergy and the citiziens.

Also, as you can see on the blue part of the seal, there are 7 stars. They represent the secen stars of the Osa Mayor (Great bear) constellation. 

THE LOCATION.

The city of madrid is locating in the Community of madrid. It is situated in the center of Spain and de city of Madrid is located almost exactly in the center of the Community. Here is a picture showing the area of Madrid and Madrid city.

TWO PATRON SAINTS.

The two main Patron Saints are: 1. The Virgen of the Almudena (November 9th) and 2. Saint isidro (May 15th).

In Madrid, also we have some bullfights which take place in Plaza de Toros Monumental de las Ventas.

There are also verbenas (fairs) as Saint Isidro and romerias where people go walking from a city to Santiago de Compostela Cathedral. They do this once a year.

Here is a video to demonstrate bullfights in Spain and how they are.

Introduction

Hello, My name is Aroa and as a Transition Year student I have got to do a blog on Geogrphy of Madrid. It is going to be on everything you can be interested in about Madrid. I am going to be posting some pictures of Madrid to let you know how it is.