Madrid-Barajas Airport is the main airport serving Madrid and the busiest in Spain, located northeast of the city center in the district of Barajas. It began as an airfield in the first decades of aviation in Spain and was opened to commercial traffic in the early 1930s. The airport grew in importance as Madrid became a hub for air traffic between Europe and Latin America. A major expansion, completed in 2006, added Terminal 4, designed by the architects Antonio Lamela and Richard Rogers, with a wave-shaped roof, and won architecture awards. It is the base of Iberia, and in 2014 it was renamed Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas Airport after the first prime minister of Spain's democracy.
Before and after
- 5 December 1927Birth of Bhumibol Adulyadej
- 1928Establishment of Thingvellir National Park
- 1928Introduction of Estonian kroon
- 1928Construction of Maginot Line
- 1928Construction of Madrid-Barajas Airport
- 1928Construction of Ellis Park Stadium
- 1928Publication of The Master and Margarita
- 1928Construction of Palomar Observatory
- 1928Publication of The Threepenny Opera
More in Art, literature & culture
- 1916Construction of Amsterdam Schiphol Airport
- 18 July 1925Publication of Mein Kampf
- 19 September 1926Construction of Giuseppe Meazza Stadium
- 4 July 1930Origins of Nation of Islam
- 1932Rise of socialist realism
- 1934Publication of March of the Volunteers
The era
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