Desde la Puerta del Sol (Spanish Edition)

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Madrid, city, capital of Spain and of Madrid provincia province. Spain, country located in extreme southwestern Europe. It occupies about 85 percent of the Iberian Peninsula, which it shares with its smaller neighbour Portugal. The Puerta del Sol Spanish for "Gate of the Sun" is a public square in Madrid , one of the best known and busiest places in the city. This is the centre Km 0 of the radial network of Spanish roads. The square also contains the famous clock whose bells mark the traditional eating of the Twelve Grapes and the beginning of a new year.

The New Year's celebration has been broadcast live on national television since 31 December The Puerta del Sol originated as one of the gates in the city wall that surrounded Madrid in the 15th century. Outside the wall, medieval suburbs began to grow around the Christian Wall of the 12th century. The name of the gate came from the rising sun which decorated the entry, since the gate was oriented to the east.

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Between the 17th and 19th centuries, the area was an important meeting place: The stairs to the Saint Philip church at the square were known as the Gradas de San Felipe , and were among the most prolific mentideros de la Corte this Spanish idiom sounds as " lie-spreaders of the Court", but it is related with the verb mentar , "to say about someone", not mentir , "to lie", so it is more appropriately translated as "places of the City where people gossip".

It is currently the seat of the Presidency of the Madrid Community. The Puerta del Sol contains a number of well known sights both domestically and internationally associated with Spain. On the south side, the old Post Office now serves as the office of the President of Madrid , the head of the regional government of the Autonomous Community of Madrid not to be confused with the Madrid City Council, which is housed elsewhere. Also on its south side, the square holds a mounted statue of Charles III of Spain , nicknamed "el rey alcalde" "the mayor-king" due to the extensive public works program he set in motion.

Until , the statue stood on the north side at the entrance to Calle del Carmen. The Mariblanca a female figure named for its white marble is a copy of a statue possibly of Venus, and so the restored pedestal claims , which marks the place of a former fountain displaying that figure. In addition to signalling the basis of numbering in the Spanish road system, the symbolic nature of the plaza ensures that it is the site of many rallies and protests, particularly against violence and war.

Sol has seen protests against the terrorism perpetrated the March 11th attacks on commuter trains, and Spain's involvement in the Iraq War [1]. In , the square became established as a focal point and a symbol for the ongoing Spanish democracy demonstrations. The demonstrations included camping in the middle of the plaza acampadasol , which began on 15 May amidst the election campaign for city halls and Autonomous Communities governments and which was fueled by social media, particularly Twitter and Facebook.

The demonstrations then spread to more than sixty other cities throughout Spain. Amazon Music Stream millions of songs. Amazon Advertising Find, attract, and engage customers.

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