Go in peace to breathe the balmy breezes of Manzanares!

The capital of Spain and of the province of Madrid, situated on the Manzanares, and nearly in the geographical center of Spain.

The royal palace, begun in 1737, is an imposing rectangular structure on a lofty terrace overlooking the Manzanares.]

The theologians rejected the project of a canal to unite the Tagus and the Manzanares, saying that this would be a work against the will of God; but having laid this downfiatthe two rivers joined themselves even though they had been separated from the beginning of the world.

MADRID (522), since 1561 the capital of Spain, on the Manzanares, a mere mountain torrent, on an arid plateau in New Castile, the centre of the peninsula; is an insanitary city, and liable to great extremes of temperature; it is regularly built, sometimes picturesque, with great open spaces, such as the Prado, 3 m. long; fine buildings and handsome streets.

Thus passed his manhood; then to other lands He strayed, a stainless figure among courts Beside the Manzanares and the Thames.