Castilla square is a large public space located in the north of the city of Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain, in the district of Chamartín. It is crossed by the final section of Paseo de la Castellana, one of the main arteries of the capital, and constitutes the nerve centre of the Castilla neighbourhood.
In Plaza de Castilla, streets and avenues such as Calle de Bravo Murillo, Calle Mateo Inurria, Calle Agustín de Foxá (which leads to Chamartín station) or Avenida de Asturias (between the square and the Pilar neighbourhood) converge, and Paseo de la Castellana, whose central lanes pass under the square through a tunnel, leaving the side lanes to access it.
Skyscrapers
It has two of the tallest structures in Madrid, which are its main attraction: the pair of buildings called Puerta de Europa, more than 100 metres high and almost 30 floors high, also known colloquially as Torres Kío. They are visible from all over Madrid, and their main feature is that they are symmetrical, each of them tilted 15° from the vertical, both facing the same place. They occupy the 10th and 11th positions of the tallest buildings in Madrid, since both are the same height, 114 m.
There is also the 24-storey Torre Castilla, at the western end of the square (blue and yellow), which occupied a position between the 50 and 80 tallest skyscrapers in Madrid in 2006.
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