Author: Juan Pedro Esteve Garcia and Antonio Bravo Fernández
17 x 24 cm. 208 pages. Editorial
bookstore. 2009.
In 1846 work began on the first railway in Madrid, which since it opened in 1851 connecting the city with Aranjuez, 48 miles south. Throughout these 160 years, have been adding more and more roads and stations, forming part of the landscape of the city. The railroads have been to Madrid, capital of inland Spain, the system of nerve connections that have joined the seas, and so the locals have had a Cantabrian basin in Príncipe Pío (then moved to Chamartin) Mediterranean port on the Glorieta de Atocha and a sort of Lusitanian Embassy on the Paseo de las Delicias. These long distance trains were like "little brothers" to the underground-that other city below the city-and narrow-now almost testimonials, but they have been part of the daily experiences of thousands of residents of Carabancheles, Vicálvaro, Móstoles, Arganda ... Source: Editions Bookstore ( www.edicioneslalibreria.es )
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