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Torre de Cristal

The Torre de Cristal is a skyscraper in the in Madrid, Spain. Built between 2004 and 2008, the tower stands at 249 m tall with 52 floors and is the current tallest building in Spain, as well as the fifth-tallest in the European Union.
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  • Type: Office building
  • Description: skyscraper in Madrid, Spain
  • Also known as: “Tower of Glass”
  • Address: Paseo de la Castellana 259 C, Madrid, 28046

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include British Embassy and Embassy of the Netherlands.

Government office
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The Embassy of the United Kingdom in is the chief diplomatic mission of the in . Since 2009 the embassy has been located in the Torre Espacio skyscraper in the .

Government office
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is a government office, which is situated 130 metres northeast of Torre de Cristal.

Government office
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is a government office, which is situated 110 metres northeast of Torre de Cristal.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Castilla and La Paz.

Quarter
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is an administrative neighborhood of belonging to the district of .

Quarter
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is an administrative neighborhood of belonging to the district of . It is home to the largest hospital in Madrid, .

Quarter
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, also popularly known by the name of La Ventilla, is an administrative neighborhood of located in the district of Tetuán. It has an area of 0.999369 km2.

Torre de Cristal

Latitude
40.47821° or 40° 28′ 42″ north
Longitude
-3.68751° or 3° 41′ 15″ west
Elevation
729 metres (2,392 feet)
Levels
52
Height
249 metres (817 feet)
Open location code
8CGRF8H6+7X
Open­Street­Map ID
way 979555466
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­office
Geo­Names ID
7283954
Wiki­data ID
Q953610
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Torre de Cristal” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “برج كريستال”
  • Armenian: “Ապակե աշտարակ”
  • Asturian: “Torre de Cristal”
  • Azerbaijani: “Şüşəli qüllə”
  • Basque: “Kristalezko dorrea”
  • Basque: “Torre de Cristal”
  • Belarusian: “Крышталёвая вежа”
  • Catalan: “Torre de Cristal”
  • Catalan: “Torre de Cristall”
  • Chinese: “水晶大樓”
  • Chinese: “馬德里結晶大樓”
  • Czech: “Torre de Cristal”
  • Dutch: “Torre de Cristal”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “برج كريستال”
  • Esperanto: “Turo Kristalo”
  • Finnish: “Torre de Cristal”
  • French: “tour de Cristal”
  • French: “Tour de cristal”
  • Galician: “Torre de Cristal”
  • German: “Torre de Cristal”
  • Indonesian: “Torre de Cristal”
  • Italian: “Torre de Cristal”
  • Japanese: “トーレ・デ・クリスタル”
  • Korean: “토레 데 크리스탈”
  • Persian: “برج کریستال”
  • Polish: “Torre de Cristal”
  • Portuguese: “Torre de Cristal”
  • Russian: “Стеклянная башня”
  • Slovak: “Torre de Cristal”
  • Spanish: “Torre de Cristal”
  • Swedish: “Torre de Cristal”
  • Thai: “ตอร์เร เด คริสตัล”
  • Turkish: “Torre de Cristal”
  • Ukrainian: “Кришталева вежа”
  • Vietnamese: “Torre de Cristal”

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