Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. Its residents are called Madrileños. The city is located on the river Manzanares in the center of the country. Due to its economic output, standard of living, and market size, Madrid is considered the major financial center of Spain.

As the capital Madrid is a city of great cultural and political importance. While Madrid possesses a modern infrastructure, it has preserved the look and feel of many of its historic neighborhoods and streets.

The population of the city was 3.2 million (December 2005), while the estimated urban area population was 5.1 million. The entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area (urban area and suburbs) is calculated to be 5.84 million.

The Metro is one of the largest metro systems in the world, which is especially remarkable considering Madrid’s population of approximately 3.5 million (Madrid city) to 6 million (metropolitan area). In fact, it is among the top 10 longest metros in the world, and the third in Europe after Moscow and London.
	It is also one of many fast growing systems in the world, rivaled, among many others, by the Seoul Metro or the Beijing Subway; the round of expansions completed in spring 2007 increased its length to 317 km, making it the third largest in the world after London and New York.Graffiti especially in Madrid is more recognised as vandalism and associated with violence.
You probably have seen it on the WARSPIRIT-video. Writers used to wait in the subway-station for a train to come in, then pulled the emergency-brake and then in a bunch of 10 and more writers just rocked the steel with end-to-ends or whole-cars.
	Eventhough there are many dope-walls around the city, this phenomena of rocking steel on line, caused this major opinion. At the end for the MOS2003 in Madrid we didn?t get a permission for the original spot: a huge park with several walls all over which are partly established as Graffiti-Hall-Of-Fame. The total wallspace would have been more than 1000 squaremeters.
So our possibilities were: either to cancel the spanish MOS, or to find another spot. As flexible as we got be sometimes, we moved the venue to a wall with more than 300 squaremeters. Spanish scene is pretty vivid, big and active. After the MOS a Hip-Hop-party has been held at a club.