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Grandeur of the Palacio De Cibeles Madrid | Krazy Butterfly

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Grandeur Of The Palacio De Cibeles Madrid | Krazy Butterfly
It's almost impossible to not gawk at the grandeur of the Plaza de Cibeles, the first time you lay your eyes on it. An inevitable architecture that's famous as Palacio de Comunicaciones or the Cibeles Fountain square, in Madrid. What's today a town hall, was once the Spanish headquarters of Correos in 1919, operating as the telecommunications and postal service. A townhall that celebrates both the local and the global events around the fountain, as an iconic political backdrop. Besides, you can enter this magnificent palace for free which, certainly makes it worth visiting. Madrid's Cybele Plaza, or Palace, has been named after Cybele, the Roman goddess of fertility, and agriculture, riding a chariot drawn by 2-lions, and mythical mortals Atalanta and Hippomenes. Built in 17th-century, Madrid's Cibeles Fountain was 'originally' designed to symbolize the water resource of the city. Until mid-18th-century the fountain had two standpipes which served as a water carrier for both the
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