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Extract from the Alcal de Henares Travel Guides:
ALCAL DE HENARES
, a little over 30km from Madrid, is one of Europe's most ancient university towns, and renowned as the birthplace of Miguel de
Cervantes
. In the sixteenth century the university was a rival to Salamanca's, but in 1836 the faculties moved to Madrid and the town went into decline. Almost all the artistic heritage was lost in the Civil War and nowadays it's virtually a suburb of Madrid. It is not somewhere you'd want to stay longer than it takes to see the sights, but that's no problem with regular trains (Chamartn or Atocha; every 15-30min from 5.30am-11.45pm) and buses (every 15min, operated by Continental...
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