Puerta del Sol

The Puerta del Sol is a public square in , one of the best known and busiest places in the city. This is the centre of the radial network of Spanish roads.
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  • Work of art
  • …lies at an elevation of 661 metres (2,169 feet)
  • Description: square in Madrid, Spain
  • Address: Plaza de la Puerta del Sol 7, Madrid, 28013
  • Also known as
    “Puerta del Sol Clock”
    “Sun Gate”
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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Kilometre zero and Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando.
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, also known as zero mile marker or zero…
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The Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando… is situated 300 metres northeast of Puerta del Sol.
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is a station on Line 1, Line 2 and Line 3 of the Madrid Metro.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sol and Centro.
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is an administrative neighborhood of belonging to the district of .
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is a district of , .
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Sol, Letras and Lavapiés are neighbourhoods in central , the capital of .

Puerta del Sol

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Latitude
40.41656° or 40° 24′ 60″ north
Longitude
-3.7038° or 3° 42′ 14″ west
Open location code
8CGRC78W+JF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 9104637017
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­clock
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­artwork
Geo­Names ID
6452881
Wiki­data ID
Q427163

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Puerta del Sol” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بويرتا دي سول”
  • Armenian: “Պուերտա դել Սոլ”
  • Basque: “Puerta del Sol”
  • Catalan: “Puerta del Sol”
  • Cebuano: “Puerta del Sol”
  • Chinese: “太阳门”
  • Chinese: “太阳门广场”
  • Czech: “Puerta del Sol”
  • Czech: “Sol”
  • Dutch: “Puerta del Sol”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بويرتا دى سول”
  • Esperanto: “Pordo de la Suno”
  • Finnish: “Puerta del Sol”
  • French: “L’horloge de la Puerta del Sol”
  • French: “Puerta del Sol”
  • Galician: “Porta do Sol”
  • Galician: “Puerta del Sol”
  • German: “Puerta del Sol”
  • Hebrew: “פוארטה דל סול”
  • Italian: “Orologio della Puerta del Sol”
  • Italian: “Puerta del Sol”
  • Japanese: “プエルタ・デル・ソル”
  • Korean: “푸에르타 델 솔”
  • Latin: “Porta Solis”
  • Lithuanian: “Puerta del Sol”
  • Polish: “Puerta del Sol”
  • Portuguese: “Porta do Sol”
  • Portuguese: “Relógio da Porta do Sol”
  • Russian: “Пуэрта-дель-Соль”
  • Slovenian: “Puerta del Sol, Madrid”
  • Slovenian: “Puerta del Sol”
  • Spanish: “Puerta del Sol”
  • Spanish: “Reloj de la Puerta del Sol”
  • Spanish: “Sol”
  • Swedish: “Puerta del Sol”
  • Turkish: “Puerta del Sol”
  • Ukrainian: “Пуерта-дель-Соль”
  • Vietnamese: “Puerta del Sol”
  • Wu Chinese: “太阳门”

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