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Torre de Cristal

Madrid, Spain

The 286th tallest building in the world

249 m · 817 ft

The Torre de Cristal (Spanish for Glass Tower) is a skyscraper in the Cuatro Torres Business Area (CTBA) in Madrid, Spain. Built between 2004 and 2008, the tower stands at 249 m (817 ft) tall with 52 floors and is the current tallest building in Spain, as well as the fifth-tallest in the European Union.

Building data from Wikidata (CC0); heights normalised. Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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