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Madrid

History's Greatest Cities

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Hemingway's History of the Civil War

Madrid was a besieged city for nearly three years during the Spanish Civil War. The end of the civil war attracted thousands of people from villages around Spain. It gives Madrid this character that very few people at that time were actually from Madrid, and not many are today.

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