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📢 文末扫码进裙，免费领取双语精读版 Madrid, Europe’s fourth-largest city, deserves more appreciation It is now the subject of a comprehensive new biography The Economist Travel and leisure 22 August, 2024 | 744 words | ★★ ★ ★ ★ Rome has captured the imagination for millennia, London and Paris for centuries, and Berlin for decades. But another major European capital has attracted similar attention only in recent years. “Madrid” by Luke Stegemann, an Australian historian, aims to explain why the Spanish capital’s profile is rising. This is not the first English-language history of the city, but in a curiously thin field, it is the most ambitious chronicle of a city elbowing its way to Europe’s front rank. Madrid is not the ancient heart of its country, like Paris or London. Its old buildings are few. It became the capital only when King Felipe II made it the seat of his court in 1561. The king did not record exactly why, though there are many the
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