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Madrid City Council
The City Council of Madrid ( es, Ayuntamiento de Madrid) is the top-tier administrative and governing body of the Madrid, the capital and biggest city of Spain. The City Council is composed by three bodies; the Mayor who leads the City Council and the executive branch of it, the Governing Council (''Junta de Gobierno'') which is the main body of the executive branch composed by the Mayor and the councillors appointed by him and the Plenary, a democratically elected assembly which represents the people of Madrid. The current Mayor of Madrid is José Luis Martínez-Almeida since June 2019. Main bodies Governing Council The ''Junta de Gobierno of the City of Madrid'' is the executive branch of the City Council, formed by the Mayor and a group of councillors appointed by the Mayor. The current Board is composed of ten members, which are: Districts The local government of the City uses a decentralized system but ultimately led by the ''ayuntamiento''. The Plenary is the body wit ...
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Ayuntamiento (Spain)
An Ayuntamiento is the body charged with the government and administration of the municipalities in Spain not bound to the regime of ''concejo abierto'' ("open council").). The Ayuntamiento, formed by the Mayor and the Councillors, is charged with the municipal government and administration. An ayuntamiento is formed by a Mayor () and the elected councillors, who compose the plenary (). In municipalities with over 5000 inhabitants, a Government Commission ( or ) is mandatory, while the existence of the body in municipalities under that population is at the discretion of the Plenary or the regulations of the Ayuntamiento. Since the 1978 Spanish Constitution, the Ayuntamiento follows a collegiate-representative model, with features of a corporative organism such as the double presidency of both the deliberative body (the Plenary) and the executive body by the Mayor, and the formation of the Government Commission exclusively by elected councillors. Unlike in other European countries ...
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Moncloa-Aravaca
Moncloa-Aravaca is a district of the municipality of Madrid, Spain. It is located to the northwest of the city centre, spanning across both banks of the Manzanares. It is made up of the neighborhoods of Aravaca, Argüelles, Casa de Campo, Ciudad Universitaria, El Plantío, Valdemarín and Valdezarza. The Palace of Moncloa, located in Ciudad Universitaria, is the residence of the Spanish Prime Minister. Geography Subdivision The district is administratively divided into 7 neighborhoods (): Education The ''Colegio Japonés de Madrid'', the Japanese international school in Madrid, is located in the El Plantío area.Como llegar
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Barajas (Madrid)
Barajas is a district of the city of Madrid, Spain. Madrid's main international airport, Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport, is located in the district. History Origins This district was originated from the "Villa de Barajas" municipality, until it was integrated into the municipality of Madrid in 1949 at the same time as Hortaleza, Canillas, Canillejas, Vallecas, Vicálvaro, Carabanchel Alto, Carabanchel Bajo, Aravaca, El Pardo and Fuencarral. The municipality of Barajas stretched through the neighborhood today known as the Historic Center of Barajas, east of the current Avenida de Logroño. Geography Subdivision The district is administratively divided into five wards (''barrios''): * Aeropuerto *Alameda de Osuna Alameda de Osuna is a ward (''barrio'') of Madrid Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the ... (where the ...
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San Blas-Canillejas
San Blas-Canillejas is a district to the east of Madrid's city centre. The population of the district is estimated in 149,909. Geography Subdivision The district is administratively divided into 8 wards (''Barrios''): *Amposta * Arcos * Canillejas *Hellín * Rejas * Rosas * Salvador *Simancas Simancas is a town and municipality of central Spain, located in the province of Valladolid, part of the autonomous community of Castile and León. It is situated approximately 10 km southwest of the provincial capital Valladolid, on the ro ... History The municipality of Canillejas was one of the oldest towns in the Community of Madrid, annexed to the city in 1949. When Madrid was divided into different districts, it did not manage to recover the name of Canillejas as the name of the district, something different from what happened with other municipalities that conserved their names, such as Barajas, Vicálvaro, Carabanchel or Villaverde. References External links Di ...
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Vicálvaro
Vicálvaro is a district in the southeast of Madrid, Spain. It is named after the former municipality absorbed into the municipality of Madrid in 1951. History When Spain's Civil Guard ( es, Guardia Civil) was established in 1844, the first headquarters of its cavalry was in Vicálvaro. Franco converted it into an artillery barracks for the Brunete Armored Division, Regiment No. 11. The building is now part of the Rey Juan Carlos University. Vicálvaro was the site of Leopoldo O'Donnell's 1854 coup known as La Vicalvarada, which began Spain's ''Bienio progresista''. In 2011, a Visigothic necropolis was uncovered in Vicálvaro. Geography Position VIcálvaro is bordered on the west by the district of Moratalaz (across the Autopista de Circunvalación M-40), on the north by San Blas (across the M-40, the Avenida de Canillejas a Vicálvaro, the Autopista Radial 3 and the Vicálvaro-Coslada Highway), on the south by the Puente de Vallecas and the Villa de Vallecas (across Autov ...
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Villa De Vallecas
Villa de Vallecas (''Village of Vallecas'') is one of the 21 districts of the city of Madrid, Spain. It forms, with the district of Puente de Vallecas, the geographical area of Vallecas. Geography Subdivision The district is administratively divided into 3 wards (''Barrios''): *Casco Histórico de Vallecas * Santa Eugenia *Ensanche de Vallecas External links Districts of Madrid {{Madrid-geo-stub ...
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Villaverde (Madrid)
Villaverde is one of the 21 districts of the city of Madrid, Spain. Geography and history The municipality was absorbed by Madrid in the 1950s as a result of the plans that the Franco government made to simplify the structure of big city administrations. Since then, is a district. It was in those years when it experimented a massive growth caused by the rural flight in Spain. This is the reason that made Villaverde a typical working class neighbourhood. This condition leaves a heavy footprint in the district, because it has conditioned the current population composition, with many retired people (some of them returning to their towns in Andalusia Andalusia (, ; es, Andalucía ) is the southernmost autonomous community in Peninsular Spain. It is the most populous and the second-largest autonomous community in the country. It is officially recognised as a "historical nationality". The t ..., Castile-León, ...) and immigrants attracted by the cheap housing prices. The di ...
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Ciudad Lineal
Ciudad Lineal ( en, ital=no, Linear city) is a district of Madrid, Spain. Geography Wards The district is administratively divided into nine wards: * Atalaya * Colina * Concepción * Costillares * Pueblo Nuevo * Quintana * San Juan Bautista * San Pascual * Ventas History Its name, ''Linear City'', comes from the model of organization by the Spanish architect Arturo Soria y Mata, the linear city, based on the idea of the line. The ‘Ciudad Lineal’ takes a form of a city 400 meters wide, centered on a tramway (line 70 - closed in 1972) and a thoroughfare running in parallel. The main street in the district has his name, ''calle de Arturo Soria''. The city is the current headquarters for the flag carrier of Spain, Iberia The Iberian Peninsula (), ** * Aragonese and Occitan: ''Peninsula Iberica'' ** ** * french: Péninsule Ibérique * mwl, Península Eibérica * eu, Iberiar penintsula also known as Iberia, is a peninsula in southwestern Europe, ...
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Moratalaz
Moratalaz is a district of Madrid, Spain. It is a well-known area because musicians such as Melendi and Alejandro Sanz have lived there. Moratalaz is on east of municipality of Madrid. It has of surface area and is delineated by the highways of M-30 to the west, M-40 to the east, M23 to the north and A-3 to the south. Geography Subdivision The district is administratively divided into seven wards (''Barrios''): *Fontarrón (145) * Horcajo (142) *Marroquina (143) * Media Legua (144) * Pavones (141) * Vinateros (146) History Moratalaz arose as a commuter suburb of Madrid during the 1960s. Famous inhabitants of the district have been Elvira Lindo, Melendi, el Dioni, Alejandro Sanz, "Cleanhead" Joe McGaha, and Letizia Ortiz. Before 1960, Moratalaz was an agglomeration of barely 40 houses with only one paved street. It was located midway on a road that connected Madrid's main cemetery Cementerio de la Almudena with the then unincorporated village of Vallecas. The Colonia Del Ferroc ...
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Puente De Vallecas
Puente de Vallecas (''Bridge of Vallecas'') is one of the 21 districts of the city of Madrid, Spain. It forms, with the district of Villa de Vallecas, the geographical area of Vallecas. Geography Subdivision The district is administratively divided into 6 wards (''Barrios''): * Entrevías * Numancia * Palomeras Bajas * Palomeras Sureste * Portazgo *San Diego External links Districts of Madrid {{Madrid-geo-stub ...
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Usera
Usera is a district of Madrid, Spain. It lies on the southern (right) bank of the Manzanares. It is home to about a 10% of the Chinese citizens in the whole Madrid region. History The district was created in the city restructuring that took place on March 28, 1987. The district was formed from the northern part of the Villaverde district and the abolished Mediodia district. The name of the district comes from the Usera neighborhood, located in the north of the district. This neighborhood has its origin in some land located to the north of the municipality of Villaverde that belonged to "Tio Sordillo", a farmer from the municipality whose daughter married . The Colonel proposed that the development of this land would be more profitable than cultivation, so between 1925 and 1930 the land was divided into plots and sold. The person in charge of the delineation and layout of the streets was Colonel Marcelo's administrator, who decided to name many streets after members of the Us ...
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