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2006/7/26 12:00

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The Door of the Sun is one of the good known and converged places of Madrid. Here he/she is the kilometer zero of the radial Spanish highways and the clock whose strokes of a bell, at 12 in the night December of every year 31, they mark the traditional one taking of the 12 grapes and the beginning from a new year to the great majority of the Spaniards. You began to televise December 31 in 1962.
The Door of the Sun was in its origins one of the accesses of the fence that Madrid surrounded in the XV century. This fence picked up in its perimeter the medieval suburbs that had gone growing outside, around the Christian wall of the XII century. The name of the door comes from a sun that adorned the entrance, placed there to be guided the door toward weighing.
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