In 2010 Eye to Eye: Alan Parsons Project Live in Madrid was released on CD.

Alfonso XII ( born Alfonso Francisco de Asís Fernando Pío Juan María de la Concepción Gregorio Pelayo ) ( Madrid, 28 November 1857 – El Pardo, 25 November 1885 ) was King of Spain, reigning from 1874 to 1885, after a coup d ' état restored the monarchy and ended the ephemeral First Spanish Republic.

Within a few days after Canovas del Castillo took power as Premier, the new king, proclaimed on 29 December 1874, arrived at Madrid, passing through Barcelona and Valencia and was acclaimed everywhere ( 1875 ).

Alfonso was born in Madrid, posthumously born son of Alfonso XII of Spain, and became King of Spain upon his birth.

* Infante Jaime Luitpold Isabelino Enrique Alberto Alfonso Victor Acacio Pedro Maria of Spain ( 1908 – 1975 ), a deaf-mute as the result of a childhood operation, he renounced his rights to the throne in 1933 and became Duke of Segovia, and later Duke of Madrid, and who, as a legitimist pretender to the French throne from 1941 to 1975, was known as the Duke of Anjou.

Madrid, Aug. 28. Letters from Lisbon bring the following Account from Rio Janeiro: That the St. Augustine, of 70 Guns, having being separated from the Squadron of M. Casa Tilly, was attacked by two Portugueze Ships, against which they defended themselves for a Day and a Night, but being next Day surrounded by the Portugueze Fleet, was obliged to surrender.

In the courts of Versailles and Madrid, Vienna's fall was confidently anticipated, an event which would almost certainly have led to the collapse of the Grand Alliance.

Catherine was born at the Archbishop's Palace in Alcalá de Henares near Madrid, on the night of 16 December 1485.

It remained a part of the Viceroyalty of Peru until 1720, when it joined the newly created Viceroyalty of New Granada ; within the viceroyalty, however, Ecuador was awarded its own audiencia in 1563, allowing it to deal directly with Madrid on certain matters.

He was replaced on 14 December 2007 by the former Real Madrid and FC Juventus manager Fabio Capello.

After the Spanish Civil War, Francoist Spain persecuted the Anarchists and Catalan nationalists among which Esperanto was extended but in the 1950s, the Esperanto movement was tolerated again with Francisco Franco accepting the honorary patronage of the Madrid World Esperanto Congress.

He moved to Madrid where he studied with Anton Raphael Mengs, a painter who was popular with Spanish royalty.

He was of Catholic faith and was buried in Bordeaux ; in 1919 his remains were transferred to the Royal Chapel of St. Anthony of La Florida in Madrid.

The middle series ( plates 48 to 64 ) record the effects of the famine that hit Madrid in 1811 – 12, before the city was liberated from the French.

After the 1990 World Cup, he was signed by Real Madrid.

Hagi played two seasons with Real Madrid and then was sold to Brescia Calcio.

This was followed by the capture of the European Super Cup with a historic win against Hagi's former club Real Madrid.

The full congress was held subsequently in Madrid, bringing together representatives of cities all over the world.

Al Qaeda inspired attacks in London and Madrid, together with a perception that Europe's large Muslim minority was not integrating, contributed to a change in public opinion in some countries.

Franco's move was intended to seize power immediately, but successful resistance by Republicans in places such as Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, the Basque country and elsewhere meant that Spain faced a prolonged civil war.

Later in Madrid, he was to paint a self-portrait with the singer and entourage.

Audubon witnessed the 1812 New Madrid earthquake while out riding, which was among the most severe to strike the mid-continent.

Today many people consider that the territory traditionally regarded as Castile corresponds to the Spanish autonomous communities of Cantabria, Castile and León, Castile – La Mancha, Madrid and La Rioja.

For the BBC he commented the 1960 European Cup Final between Real Madrid and Eintracht Frankfurt at Hampden Park, widely regarded as one of the greatest football matches ever played.

Eintracht lost 3 – 7 to Real Madrid in an exciting final widely regarded as one of the best football matches ever played.

Robinson, who won 24 caps for the Republic of Ireland, stayed in Spain after retiring, having settled very well in the country and learned the language to fluency, a trait that was later picked up on by Steve McManaman ( with Real Madrid from 1999 – 2003 ), who regarded Robinson as his mentor.

Thenceforth, Uclés, in Cuenca Province, was regarded as the headquarters of the order ; there the grand master habitually resided, aspirants passed their year of probation, and the rich archives of the order were preserved until united in 1869 with the " Archivo Histórico Nacional " of Madrid.

The most famous bullrings in the world are Plaza de Toros de Las Ventas in Madrid ( Spain ), widely regarded as the most prestigious one, La Maestranza in Seville ( Spain ) and Plaza de toros de Mexico in Mexico.

In recent years, she has won a number of awards and prestige from her well regarded performances, including having been named a soloist for the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall, winning $ 15, 000 at the Metropolitan Opera Council Auditions in March 2005, and most recently winning the women's division and the People's Choice awards at Plácido Domingo's Operalia International Opera Competition in Madrid for $ 30, 000 and $ 10, 000 respectively.

The Pact of Madrid, signed in 1953 by Spain and the United States, ended a period of virtual isolation for Spain, although the other victorious allies of World War II and much of the rest of the world remained hostile to what they regarded as a fascist regime sympathetic to the Nazi cause and established with Axis assistance.

Best known for his Real Madrid spell ( 17 La Liga seasons, nearly 800 official games ), he was known for his stellar heading ability despite not reaching 1. 80m, and is widely regarded as one of the best strikers in the history of Spanish football.

By August 1605 there were two Madrid editions, two published in Lisbon, and one in Valencia.

John Fox Watson made a pioneering transfer to Real Madrid in 1948, becoming one of the first players from the British Isles to sign for a high-profile side abroad, leading the way for British players like John Charles, Jimmy Greaves and Denis Law in the following decades.

Hagi is one of the few footballers to have played for both the Spanish rival clubs Real Madrid and FC Barcelona.

The earliest document mentioning a Barnabas gospel which is generally agreed to correspond with the one found in the two known manuscripts is reported to be contained in Morisco manuscript BNM MS 9653 in Madrid, written about 1634 by Ibrahim al-Taybili in Tunisia.

Similarly, standard Spanish is not based on the speech of Madrid, but on the one of educated speakers from more northerly areas like Castile and León.

In Madrid, Castilla-La Mancha, Castilla y León, Asturias, Extremadura, and in parts of Andalucia, when one goes to a bar and orders a drink, often a tapa will be served with it for free.

After his discharge from the Nationalist army, he met his future first wife, Araceli Gonzalez, in Burgos and married her in Madrid ; they had one child, Juan Fernando.

( Curtis Cate, one of his biographers, claims that Malraux was slightly wounded twice during efforts to stop the Falangists ' takeover of Madrid, but the historian Hugh Thomas claims otherwise.

Cruyff advised him not to join Real Madrid, one of the teams said to have been interested in him.

The Community of Madrid (; ) is one of the seventeen autonomous communities ( regions ) of Spain.

It is conterminous with the province of Madrid, making it " uniprovincial ," or a community with only one province.

Autonomous communities were to be created by one or more provinces with a distinct regional identity ; since Madrid was part of the historical region of Castile, assigned to New Castile in the 1833 provincial organization, it was first planned that the province of Madrid would be part of the future community of Castile – La Mancha ( which was roughly similar to New Castile, with the adding of the province of Albacete ) but with some special considerations as the home of the national capital.

The town of Madrid, which was one of the eighteen cities with the right to vote in the Courts of Castile, was seat of the Courts themselves on several occasions and was the residence of several monarchs, amongst them the emperor Charles I who reformed and expanded the Alcázar or Castle of the city.

The sculptor Juan Martínez Montañés modeled a statue of one of Velázquez's equestrian portraits of the king, painted in 1636, which was cast in bronze by the Florentine sculptor Pietro Tacca and which now stands in the Plaza de Oriente at Madrid.

In early 2000, The Telegraph announced that the search for Velazquez's body would be abandoned: " A CAR park is to be built over what is widely believed to be the site of the tomb of Velazquez, one of Spain's greatest artists, after the authorities abandoned attempts to find his body ... thought to have been buried in Madrid at the Iglesia de San Juan Bautista.

In the summer of 2005, he was appointed manager of Rayo Vallecano and, in the following year, returned to his alma mater, as director of Real Madrid's sports city, the entire youth system, and manager duties at Real Madrid Castilla, where he coached one of his sons, Adrián.

In June 1995, having lost his influence in the Real Madrid side ( only eight matches, with one goal, as the club won another league ), mainly due to the emergence of 17-year old Raúl González, Butragueño signed for Club Celaya in Mexico and, in his first year, the team reached the final of the national championship.

This album, named after one of the Madrid metro station stops ( the title translates to " next station: Hope "), features similar sounds to Clandestino but with heavier Caribbean influences than the previous album.

In the historical classification of La Liga, Athletic are in fourth place and one of only three clubs which have never been relegated from the Liga, the others being Real Madrid and FC Barcelona.

Athletic is one of only four professional clubs in Spain in Primera División ( the others being Real Madrid, Barcelona and Osasuna ) that is not a sports corporation ; the club is owned and operated by its associates ( socios ).

Thus, four trophies have been permanently awarded to Barcelona, three to Bilbao and one to Real Madrid.

The FBI Latent Print Unit processed a fingerprint collected in Madrid and reported a " 100 percent positive " match against one of the 20 fingerprint candidates returned in a search response from their IAFIS — Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System.

It should be noted that while the present university is named " Universidad de Alcalá ", the ancient institution founded by Cisneros is the one now called " Universidad Complutense " located in the capital city of Madrid (" Complutensis " is the Latin word for " native of Alcalá ").