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The Historian · Martín · Madrid

Puerta del Sol

Centre · Symbolic centre of Spain · Free

Tourists pass through it to get somewhere else. I stop, because almost every turning point in modern Spanish history touched this square.

The symbolic centre of the country — kilometre zero, the clock that rings in the new year, the balcony where the Republic was proclaimed, the square where revolts began and ended.

— Martín, The Historian
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