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Museo del Prado
Spain's premier art museum with an unrivaled collection of European art, including masterworks by Velázquez, Goya, and El Greco.
0 km · about 5 min drive
Madrid, Spain · Europe
Las Cortes works well as a base: 47km from Sierra de Guadarrama National Park.
Las Cortes is a town located in Madrid, Spain. With a population of 10,816, it is an important destination in Europe.
On a road trip, Las Cortes sits in Spain, where you drive on the right. It's in the Europe/Madrid time zone. Below you'll find where to stay, things to do nearby, and everything you need to add Las Cortes to your route.
The Congress of Deputies (Spanish: Congreso de los Diputados) is the lower house of the Cortes Generales, Spain's legislative branch, the upper house being the Senate. The Congress meets in the Palace of the Parliament (Palacio de las Cortes) in Madrid.
Congress has 350 members elected from fifty-two constituenciesRead more
(the fifty provinces and two autonomous cities) using closed list D'Hondt proportional representation. Deputies serve four-year terms. The presiding officer and speaker is the President of the Congress of Deputies, who is elected by the members at the first sitting of Congress after an election.
The two principal bodies in Congress are parliamentary groups and parliamentary committees (Spanish: comisiones). All MPs are required to be members of a parliamentary group, the institutionalised form of political parties. Groups act with one voice represented by their spokesperson. In other words, the Spanish Parliament is a parliament of groups, not individual MPs who are constrained to act only as part of the group. MPs can only act autonomously when submitting oral or written questions.
As a result of the 2019 general election, there were 168 female deputies or 48% of all members, making Spain the European country with the highest percentage of women in parliament, surpassing Sweden and Finland; however, the share decreased to a 44.3% after the elections in 2023.
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Las Cortes is located in Madrid, Spain, Europe. The coordinates are 40.4161 latitude, -3.6967 longitude.
Las Cortes has a population of approximately 10,816 people, making it a town in Spain.
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Full driving guide for Spain7 notable places within an hour's drive.
museum
Spain's premier art museum with an unrivaled collection of European art, including masterworks by Velázquez, Goya, and El Greco.
0 km · about 5 min drive
museum
Spain's national museum of 20th-century art, home to Picasso's monumental anti-war painting Guernica.
1 km · about 5 min drive
landmark
Grand 17th-century rectangular plaza in central Madrid surrounded by three-storey residential buildings with 237 balconies.
1 km · about 5 min drive
landmark
Largest functioning royal palace in Europe with over 3,400 rooms, the official residence of the Spanish royal family.
2 km · about 5 min drive
racetrack
A tight, twisting 3.4km circuit north of Madrid designed by John Hugenholtz that hosted nine Spanish Grands Prix. Still active for club racing and track days, largely unchanged since the 1970s.
24 km · about 30 min drive
landmark
A vast granite royal monastery and palace at the foot of the Guadarrama mountains, burial place of Spanish kings.
43 km · about 50 min drive
national park
Granite peaks and pine forests north of Madrid, with the Puerto de Navacerrada pass beloved by drivers and skiers.
47 km · about 55 min drive
April to October
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