Time Out Madrid (Time Out Guides)
Edition: Seventh edition edition
Publisher: Time Out
Published: May 24, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781904978626
Subjects: Travel & holiday guides; Travel Guides; Travel; Travel - Foreign; Spain; Europe - Spain & Portugal; Travel / Europe / Spain & Portugal
First sentence: In the 17th century, after Madrid had become capital of the Spanish Empire on the whim of Philip V, an attempt was made to construct an ancient past for it, and writers developed the story of its descent from a Roman city called Mantua Carpetana.