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Calle Preciados
Calle de Preciados (or simply Preciados), is a public pedestrian street in central Madrid, Spain, which spans from Puerta del Sol to Plaza de Santo Domingo via Plaza de Callao, where it takes a bend. It is about 500-metre long. History The street was built on land previously occupied by the Convent of Las Descalzas Reales and the harvest plots of the . According to tradition, the name of ''Preciados'' (in use at least since the 17th century) comes from two brothers ('the Preciados') who installed in the area after buying plots to monks and thrived by working as (an archaic job description pertaining the certification of weights and measures A unit of measurement is a definite magnitude of a quantity, defined and adopted by convention or by law, that is used as a standard for measurement of the same kind of quantity. Any other quantity of that kind can be expressed as a multi ...). Already in 1905, the street was an important retail area, with a predominance of the ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pedestrian Street
Pedestrian zones (also known as auto-free zones and car-free zones, as pedestrian precincts in British English, and as pedestrian malls in the United States and Australia) are areas of a city or town reserved for pedestrian-only use and in which most or all automobile traffic is prohibited. Converting a street or an area to pedestrian-only use is called ''pedestrianisation''. Pedestrianisation usually aims to provide better accessibility and mobility for pedestrians, to enhance the amount of shopping and other business activities in the area or to improve the attractiveness of the local environment in terms of aesthetics, air pollution, noise and crashes involving motor vehicle with pedestrians. However, pedestrianisation can sometimes lead to reductions in business activity, property devaluation, and displacement of economic activity to other areas. In some cases, traffic in surrounding areas may increase, due to displacement, rather than substitution of car traffic. None ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unit Of Measurement
A unit of measurement is a definite magnitude of a quantity, defined and adopted by convention or by law, that is used as a standard for measurement of the same kind of quantity. Any other quantity of that kind can be expressed as a multiple of the unit of measurement. For example, a length is a physical quantity. The metre (symbol m) is a unit of length that represents a definite predetermined length. For instance, when referencing "10 metres" (or 10 m), what is actually meant is 10 times the definite predetermined length called "metre". The definition, agreement, and practical use of units of measurement have played a crucial role in human endeavour from early ages up to the present. A multitude of systems of units used to be very common. Now there is a global standard, the International System of Units (SI), the modern form of the metric system. In trade, weights and measures is often a subject of governmental regulation, to ensure fairness and transparency. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Público (Spain)
''Público'' () is a Spanish online newspaper. It was published as a print daily newspaper between 2007 and 2012. The print version folded but the newspaper continues online. History and profile ''Público'' was established in September 2007. The founder is Jaume Roures, head of Mediapro. One of only two national left-wing papers (the other being ''elDiario.es''), the paper had a harder-left editorial line than ''El País''. ''Público'' also aimed at a younger readership. The paper was two-thirds the length of its competitors and its price, initially only 50 cents, was less than half. The paper's original press run was 250,000 daily. After making financial losses for several years, and facing a €9 million deficit, ''Público'' folded its print edition in February 2012. In its last year, the paper was the ninth-largest general-interest newspaper in Spain and the fifth-largest of those headquartered in Madrid Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cinco Días
''Cinco Días'' (Spanish: ''Five Days'') is a business and finance newspaper published in Madrid, Spain. Founded in 1978 it is the oldest business newspaper in the country. History and profile ''Cinco Días'' was first published in March 1978. The reason behind the establishment of this business paper was related to the oil crisis experienced in the country in the mid-1970s. Because due to this crisis the Spanish society became more interested in macro economics and labor-related problems. ''Cinco Días'' is published in tabloid format five times per week from Monday to Friday and is based in Madrid. In 1989 the paper became owned by the PRISA group which is also the owner of ''El País'' and ''Diario AS''. The publisher of ''Cinco Días'' is Estructura, a subsidiary of Prisa Group. ''Cinco Días'' has various supplements and includes a section for articles from ''The Wall Street Journal''. The paper has a left-liberal Social liberalism (german: Sozialliberalismus, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corte Inglés
Corte may refer to: * Corte, a commune in Corsica, France ** Arrondissement of Corte, a district in Corsica, France * USC Corte, a French football team People with the surname * Frank Corte, Jr., a U.S. businessman and politician See also * Corte Brugnatella, a commune in the province of Piacenza, Italy * Corte de' Cortesi con Cignone, a commune in the province of Cremona, Italy * Corte de' Frati, a town and commune in the province of Cremona, Italy * Corte Franca, a town and commune in the province of Brescia, Italy * Corte Palasio, a town and commune in the province of Lodi, Italy * Corte Madera, California, a town in the United States * Corto (other) * Corte-Real (other) * Cortes (other) Cortes, Cortés, Cortês, Corts, or Cortès may refer to: People * Cortes (surname), including a list of people with the name ** Hernán Cortés (1485–1547), a Spanish conquistador Places * Cortes, Navarre, a village in the South border of N ... * C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Galerías Preciados
Galerías Preciados, S.A. was a Spanish chain of department stores founded in 1943 by José "Pepín" Fernández Rodríguez. Named after the street on which it stood, Galerías Preciados was, along with El Corte Inglés El Corte Inglés S.A. (), headquartered in Madrid, is the biggest department store group in Europe and ranks third worldwide. Its primary source of sales is from department stores, followed by internet sales. It is a family business, with most s ..., one of the economic motors of the retail industry in post-war Spain. In 1995, the company went into receivership and was subsequently adjudicated to its main rival. Stores * Barcelona * Cádiz * Avenida Ronda de los Tejares, Córdoba * Carrera de la Virgen, Granada * Plaza de las Monjas, Huelva * Calle Preciados, Madrid * Gran Vía, Murcia * Calle de Uria, Oviedo * Paseo Independencia, Saragosse * Calle San Pablo/Calle Méndez Núñez, Seville * Plaza de la Magdalena/Calle O´Donnell, Seville * Calle Constitució ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Universidad Carlos III De Madrid
University Charles III of Madrid ( es, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) (UC3M) is a public university in the Community of Madrid, Spain. Established in 1989, UC3M is an institution with a distinctly international profile. It offers a broad range of master's and bachelor's degree programs in English, and nearly 20% of the student body is made up of international students. It is the first university in Spain and the third in Europe in the number of its students participating in the Erasmus student exchange programs. The university has a strong reputation in business subjects, in particular Economics, for which it is regularly ranked amongst the top 50 institutions worldwide. It is known for its high academic demand to degree students. It also holds the highest admission grade requirement in Madrid for several degree programs such as Business, Law, Political Science, Economics, International Studies, Accounting, Journalism or Biomedical Engineering. It also ranks among the world's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Mundo (Spain)
''El Mundo'' (; ), before ''El Mundo del Siglo Veintiuno'', is the second largest printed daily newspaper in Spain. The paper is considered one of the country's newspapers of record along with ''El País and ABC.'' History and profile ''El Mundo'' was first published on 23 October 1989. Perhaps the best known of its founders was Pedro J. Ramírez, who served as editor until 2014. Ramirez had risen to prominence as a journalist during the Spanish transition to democracy. The other founders, Alfonso de Salas, Balbino Fraga and Juan González, shared with Ramírez a background in Grupo 16, the publishers of the newspaper ''Diario 16''. Alfonso de Salas, Juan Gonzales and Gregorio Pena also launched '' El Economista'' in 2006. ''El Mundo'', along with '' Marca'' and '' Expansión'', is controlled by the Italian publishing company RCS MediaGroup through its Spanish subsidiary company Unidad Editorial S.L. Its former owner was Unedisa which merged with Grupo Recoletos in 2007 to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Convent Of Las Descalzas Reales
The Convent of Las Descalzas Reales ( es, Monasterio de las Descalzas Reales) is a royal monastery situated in Madrid, Spain, administered by the Patrimonio Nacional. History The ''Monasterio de las Descalzas Reales'', literally the "Monastery of the Royal Discalced", resides in the former palace of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, Emperor Charles V and Isabella of Portugal, Empress Isabel of Portugal. Their daughter, Joanna of Austria, Princess of Portugal, Joanna of Austria, founded this convent of nuns of the Poor Clare order in 1559. Throughout the remainder of the 16th century and into the 17th century, the convent attracted young widowed or spinster noblewomen. Each woman brought with her a dowry. The riches quickly piled up, and the convent became one of the richest convents in all of Europe. Tomás Luis de Victoria, Spain's finest Renaissance composer, worked at the convent from 1587 to the end of his life in 1611. The demographics of the convent slowly changed over t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sol (Madrid)
Sol is an administrative neighborhood () of Madrid belonging to the district of Centro. It has a total area of around 44.5 hectares (less than 0.1% out of the total municipal area). Hugely affected by the impact of tourism Tourism is travel for pleasure or business; also the theory and practice of touring, the business of attracting, accommodating, and entertaining tourists, and the business of operating tours. The World Tourism Organization defines tourism mor ..., by 2018 it had over 2 tourists per 1 permanent dweller. References Wards of Madrid Sol neighborhood, Madrid {{Madrid-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ABC (Spain)
''ABC'' () is a Spanish national daily newspaper. It is the second largest general-interest newspaper in Spain, number one in Madrid, and the oldest newspaper still operating in Madrid. Along with '' El Mundo'' and ''El País'', it is one of Spain’s three newspapers of record. History and profile ''ABC'' was first published in Madrid on 1 January 1903 by Torcuato Luca de Tena y Álvarez-Ossorio. The founding publishing house was Prensa Española, which was led by the founder of the paper, Luca de Tena. The paper started as a weekly newspaper, turning daily in June 1905. In 1928 ABC had two editions, one for Madrid and the other for Seville. The latter was named ''ABC de Sevilla''. On 20 July 1936, shortly after the Spanish Civil War began, ''ABC'' in Madrid was seized by the republican government, which changed the paper's politics to support the Republicans. The same year ''Blanco y Negro'', a magazine, became its supplement. The ''ABC'' printed in Seville was support ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pedestrian Street
Pedestrian zones (also known as auto-free zones and car-free zones, as pedestrian precincts in British English, and as pedestrian malls in the United States and Australia) are areas of a city or town reserved for pedestrian-only use and in which most or all automobile traffic is prohibited. Converting a street or an area to pedestrian-only use is called ''pedestrianisation''. Pedestrianisation usually aims to provide better accessibility and mobility for pedestrians, to enhance the amount of shopping and other business activities in the area or to improve the attractiveness of the local environment in terms of aesthetics, air pollution, noise and crashes involving motor vehicle with pedestrians. However, pedestrianisation can sometimes lead to reductions in business activity, property devaluation, and displacement of economic activity to other areas. In some cases, traffic in surrounding areas may increase, due to displacement, rather than substitution of car traffic. None ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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