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The Faro de Moncloa is a -high transmission tower with an observation deck at the Plaza De Moncloa,
The Faro de Moncloa is a -high transmission tower with an observation deck at the Plaza De Moncloa, 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 second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and ...
, Spain
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, national_motto = ''Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond")
, national_anthem = (English: "Royal March")
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. It was project by architect Salvador Pérez Arroyo and built in 1992. The tower was closed to the public from 2005 to 2015, when new safety regulations were introduced after the Windsor Tower
The Windsor Tower ( es, Torre Windsor) was an office building in the financial center of Madrid, Spain. Built in 1979, it was high and had 32 floors of which 29 were above ground level and 3 below, thus ranking it as the eighth tallest building ...
fire took place earlier that year. It reopened to the public in April 2015.
See also
*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, Ciuda ...
*List of towers
Several extant building fulfill the engineering definition of a tower: "a tall human structure, always taller than it is wide, for public or regular operational access by humans, but not for living in or office work, and are ''self-supporting' ...
External links
* *http://www.skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?b733 Towers completed in 1992 Communication towers in Spain Buildings and structures in Ciudad Universitaria neighborhood, Madrid Observation towers 1992 establishments in Spain {{europe-mast-stub