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The Faro de Moncloa is a -high transmission tower with an observation deck at the Plaza De Moncloa,
The Faro de Moncloa is a -high transmission tower with an observation deck at the Plaza De Moncloa, Madrid
Madrid ( ; ) is the capital and List of largest cities in Spain, most populous municipality of Spain. It has almost 3.5 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 7 million. It i ...
, Spain
Spain, or the Kingdom of Spain, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe with territories in North Africa. Featuring the Punta de Tarifa, southernmost point of continental Europe, it is the largest country in Southern Eur ...
. It was envisioned by architect Salvador Pérez Arroyo and was built in 1992. The tower was closed to the public from 2005 to 2015, when new safety regulations were introduced after the Windsor Tower fire took place earlier that year. It reopened to the public in April 2015.
See also
*Moncloa-Aravaca
Moncloa-Aravaca is a Districts of Madrid, district of the municipality of Madrid, Spain. It is located to the northwest of the city centre, spanning across both banks of the Manzanares River, Manzanares. It is made up of the neighborhoods of Arav ...
*List of towers
The tallest structure in the world is the Burj Khalifa skyscraper at . Listed are guyed masts (such as telecommunication masts), self-supporting towers (such as the CN Tower), skyscrapers (such as the Willis Tower), oil platforms, electricity ...
External links
* * *http://www.skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?b733 Towers completed in 1992 Communication towers in Spain Buildings and structures in Ciudad Universitaria neighborhood, Madrid Observation towers 1992 establishments in Spain {{Madrid-struct-stub