History UsefulNotes / Madrid

* OpenYourEyes shows several scenes there, most notably the film's climax.
* ''[[Film/TheDayOfTheBeast ElDíaDeLaBestia]]'' ends [[spoiler: confronting TheAntichrist]] at the Torres Kio in Chamartín.

** By the same director: ''El Día de la Bestia''. A Basque priest travels to Madrid and becomes evil in order to contact Satan, as he has learned he will spawn TheAntichrist in the city on December 25th, 1993 with help of a Satanic heavy metal-rabid fan (who is a hopeless loser who lives with his racist mother, her naive twenty-something tenant and his mentally disabled grandfather) and a TV Occult Guru who sells books on making a DealWithTheDevil and teach Satanism ''on TV'' but is secretly a fraud. All while the city is gang-crime rotten. People keeps dying, nobody cares. All PlayedForLaughs. Also, Pedro Solbes, who was a Minister for Economy and Finances both in the [[TheNineties early Nineties]] and the late [[TheNewTens New Tens]] makes a cameo by way of stock footage in an appliance store while the TV guru appears next to him to announce the impending apocalypse.

* The aforementioned ElDiaDeLaBestia as well as LaComunidad by {{Creator/Alex de la Iglesia}}.
* TheBourneUltimatum
* OpenYourEyes, by {{Creator/Alejandro Amenabar}}, shows a vacant Gran Vía
* TieMeUp, by {{Creator/Pedro Almodovar}}.

* AquiNoHayQuienViva, spiritual predecessor of LaQueSeAvecina, is stated to be set in Desengaño, 21[[note]]The actual street doesn't have a 21 nor resembles that of the show at all, as it's notoriously more dark and gritty than the shiny, polished, [[ProductPlacement full of top-notch brands casually present]] and somewhat unreal TV depiction[[/note]]

* ElDiaDeLaBestia ends [[spoiler: confronting TheAntichrist]] at the Torres Kio in Chamartín.

* In ElDiaDeLaBestia, Jose María claims he's from Carabanchel.

Unlike most other European capitals, Madrid wasn't always the capital of Spain, as, although academical and political discussion about when Spain actually became Spain exists, the truth is that there wasn't a capital for Spain before the Habsburgs (namely, Charles I) who settled for Madrid as a political and economic gravity center as it was becoming custom in their native UsefulNotes/HolyRomanEmpire (though, political centralism in the HRE never actually existed, and was mainly both a goal and a pain in the ass for the late Charles I (V of Germany), along with religious uniformity, thus starting quite a few wars).

''Madrileños'' are friendly and welcoming, and won't ask you uncomfortable questions about anything as long as you dont disturb anybody, there is work for everybody who wants one, and [[CityOfAdventure is a rich city full of opportunities to enrich yourself culturally, academically, profesionally or socially, and get a grown-up person]]. While TruthInTelevision, at least when envisioned by rural folks both in TheFifties or even in [[TheNineties the early Nineties]] as well as some South American media, this is ''deconstructed as early as the 19th Century'' and comes across as an UnbuiltTrope regarding media, while ''coplas'' y ''zarzuelas'' (Traditional music) very usually plays this straight.

** By the same director: ''El Día de la Bestia''. A Basque priest travels to Madrid and becomes evil in order to contact Satan, as he has learned he will spawn TheAntichrist in the city on December 25th, 1993 with help of a Satanic heavy metal-rabid fan (who is a hopeless loser who lives with his racist mother, her naive twenty-something tenant and his mentally disabled grandfather) and a TV Occult Guru who sells books on making a DealWithTheDevil and teach Satanism ''on TV'' but is secretly a fraud. All while the city is gang-crime rotten. People keeps dying, nobody cares. All PlayedForLaughs. Also, Pedro Solbes, who was a Minister for Economy and Finances both in the [[TheNineties early Nineties]] and the late [[TheNewTens New Tens]] makes a cameo by way of stock footage in an appliance store [[HilariousInHindsight while the TV guru appears]] [[HarsherInHindsight next to him to]] announce the impending apocalypse.

** By the same director: ''El Día de la Bestia''. A Basque priest travels to Madrid and becomes evil in order to contact Satan, as he has learned he will spawn TheAntichrist in the city on December 25th, 1993 with help of a Satanic heavy metal-rabid fan (who is a hopeless loser who lives with his racist mother, her naive twenty-something tenant and his mentally disabled grandfather) and a TV Occult Guru who sells books on making a DealWithTheDevil and teach Satanism ''on TV'' but is secretly a fraud. All while the city is gang-crime rotten. People keeps dying, nobody cares. All PlayedForLaughs. Also, Pedro Solbes, who was a Minister for Economy and Finances both in the [[TheNineties early Nineties]] and the late [[TheNewTens New Tens]] makes a cameo by way of stock footage in an appliance store [[HilariousInHindsight while the TV guru appears]] [[HarsherInHindsight next to him to]] [[FunnyAneurysmMoment announce the impending apocalypse]].

As Wiki/TheOtherWiki reads, Madrid is the second-largest city and metropolitan area of UsefulNotes/TheEuropeanUnion and also happens to be the capital city of UsefulNotes/{{Spain}}, and the largely discussed center of the Iberian Peninsula, mostly by historical tensions between UsefulNotes/{{France}}-[=like=] political centralists and both left-leaning and conservative elites mainly in Barcelona or even UsefulNotes/{{Lisbon}}.

Allegedly, film director Alex de la Iglesia claimed "Madrid is the sort of place where you realize if the world doesn't come to an end today, it surely will happen tomorrow". This is where dreams go to die, the full place is a WretchedHive populated by [[StepfordSmiler emptied-out nouveau rich]], morally lacking [=CEOs=], [[SleazyPolitician self-serving public authorities]] where all of them will smile and greet at you unless you fall from grace and be damned to share space with the lower classes, which are usually portrayed as [[KickTheDog poorer than dirt, sexually deviant, struggling white trash who usually are also drug addicts]] [[UpToEleven with AIDS]][[note]]Spanish film industry had a tendency to shoehorn every known social issue in a limited number of characters, in order to show their consciousness or realism about the issues portrayed, which, while anvilicious, comes as an unfortunate ContrivedCoincidence of misery[[/note]]

Before the Habsburgs reign, there was no such thing as a capital city as the court moved to wherever the kings (namely, the Catholic Monarchs) were at the time, thus becoming ''de facto'' capital. Otherwise, Toledo is often regarded as a ''De jure'' capital in pre-imperial times due to it being the capital of Gothic Spain, before the UsefulNotes/{{Moorish|Spain}} invasion, but was not really enforced after the fall of Granada at the end of the [[UsefulNotes/SpanishReconquista Reconquista]].

* ''Film/{{Thesis}}'' by Creator/AlejandroAmenabar. Set at UCM Campus as well as Aravaca.

* In ''[[Film/AssassinsCreed2016 Assassin's Creed]]'' (the 2016 film), Callum Lynch (Creator/MichaelFassbender) is detained at the "Abstergo Rehabilitation Center" in Madrid where he has to relive the GeneticMemory of his 15th century Spanish Assassin ancestor. The giant bunker-like Abstergo building is fictional but was superimposed on an aerial view of the San Isidro ''barrio'' of Carabanchel in the place of a local cemetery.

* Fictional borough Esperanza Sur from {{Aída}} is implied to be in one of these districts. [[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield Where, exactly, is left deliberately ambiguous and inconsistent]]. Given the somewhat unflattering, if PlayedForLaughs, depiction of the place, it's understandable.

Unlike most other European capitals, Madrid wasn't always the capital of Spain, as, although academical and political discussion about when Spain actually became Spain exists, the truth is that there wasn't a capital for Spain before the Habsburgs (namely, Charles I) who settled for Madrid as a political and economic gravity center as it was becoming custom in their native HRE (Though, political centralism in the HRE never actually existed, and was mainly both a goal and a pain in the ass for the late Charles I (V of Germany), along with religious uniformity, thus starting quite a few wars).

Before the Habsburgs reign, there was no thing as a capital city as the court moved to wherever the kings (namely, the Catholic Monarchs) were at the time, thus becoming ''de facto'' capital. Otherwise, Toledo is often regarded as a ''De jure'' capital in pre-imperial times due to it being the capital of Gothic Spain, before the moorish invasion, but was not really enforced after the fall of Granada.

As Wiki/TheOtherWiki reads, Madrid is the second-largest city and metropolitan area of UsefulNotes/TheEuropeanUnion and also happens to be the capital city of UsefulNotes/{{Spain}}, and the largely discussed center of the Iberian Peninsula, mostly by historical tensions between UsefulNotes/{{France}}-like political centralists and both left-leaning and conservative elites mainly in Barcelona or even UsefulNotes/{{Lisbon}}.

As Wiki/TheOtherWiki reads, Madrid is the second-largest city and metropolitan area of the European Union and also happens to be the capital city of Spain, and the largely discussed center of the Iberian Peninsula, mostly by historical tensions between France-like political centralists and both left-leaning and conservative elites mainly in Barcelona or even Lisbon.

** The indoor modern-day scenes at the Abstergo UsefulNotes/{{Madrid}} center were shot at Creator/PinewoodStudios in England, in the [[Film/JamesBond 007]] Soundstage most notably.

The original burgeois colonies. At the end of the 19th Century the upper classes where sickened from the unhealthy and overpopulated old town (read: Centro District) and begged for the king to tear down the city walls and expand the city. The project was conducted upon the orders of the Marquis of Salamanca and gave birth to these three districts. Chamberí and Salamanca are akin to the Upper West and East Side of New York, they are on opposing sides of the Paseo de la Castellana, and they hate each other's guts. Chamberi is populated mostly by old aristocracy, retired diplomats, and [[UpperClassTwit general old money]] that regard the denizens of Salamanca as obnoxious nouveau riches. The Chamberi District was utterly ravished on the UsefulNotes/SpanishCivilWar and currently holds the Joaquin Sorolla Museum, located on the own painter's old manor, which is a pinnacle of spanish impressionism, as well as many embassies. The Salamanca Borough holds high executives, Media Personalities and Bankers and the USA Embassy, and regard the denizens of Chamberi as a dying chaste who has nothing to say and UpperClassTwit galore. [[NotSoDifferent Both are notably economically affluent and conservative]]. Retiro holds the eponymous park, that used to be the King's private gardens, and is usually the odd man out, politically and otherwise.