Madrid is booming. Growing while keeping its cool will be the tricky part

“JUST TO BE something, I’ll be a madrileño.” Not a stirring sentiment, and yet the line is part of the official hymn of Madrid, which has often “just been something”. King Felipe II made the middling town his new capital in 1561 in part simply because it was dead central and lacked competing…

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