The Community of Madrid is an independent community Spanish uniprovincial. Located in the North part of the Central Plateau. Its capital, Madrid is also the capital of Spain and the province homónima (although a uniprovincial community does not exist Delegation to the being the one of Madrid).
The independent community has a surface of 7,995 km ². Located in the central plateau, it limits the north and the west with Castile and Leon (provinces of Segovia and Avila) and the east and the south with Castile La Mancha (provinces of Toledo, Guadalajara and Cuenca).
The province presents/displays a continental climate of invier cold and warm summers to us, with little rains that, next to the altitude resistances, originate very different ecosystems. This diversity is pronounced in the numerous dead grounds on which it counts, like the Natural Reserve of the Reedbed of Villamejor, and the Regional base of the High River basin of the Manzanares, among others.
The Madrid capital, is characterized by a very active cultural life, between libraries, universities, museums, exhibitions and all class of cultural acts. Its economic activity is pronounced in encounter like made in the modern palaces of congresses or Week park Juan Carlos I, who welcomes important commercial fairs. And its tourist, important activity like in another European capital, receives new impulse when welcoming nowadays the seat of the World-wide Organization of Tourism. The leisure also is guaranteed through an ample supply of theaters, you operate, zarzuelas and concerts throughout all the year, in numerous sport facilities or their efervescente nocturnal life.
In Madrid all type of regional and foreign kitchens of the level can be found upper. Typically Madrilenian plates are the spanish stew or the calluses, presents as much in the capital as in the province, together the meats of lamb and calf of the north. The hortícolas products of the fertile valley of Aranjuez and their typical candies do that we pruned to enjoy a rich and varied gastronomy. Their popular celebrations run by the community throughout all the year, and their bullfighting fairs are the finishing touch to know and to enjoy a visit this community.