Nowadays, Madrid is an international and cosmopolitan city, but, in fact, it started being so from the beginning. This is because its founders, the Arabs, already had a foreign origin, as they came from the Arabian Peninsula, and even before the foundation, other communities and civilizations came to Madrid from what at this moment is Italy (the Romans) and from what at this momento is Germany (the Visigoths).

If that information is attractive for you, you may be interested in knowing that it is possible to visit some parts of the old Arabian Wall of Madrid (they can be seen from Cuesta de la Vega), that some remains and clues of Visigoth burials have been found in the vicinity of the Royal Palace, and that there are Roman deposits in the districts of Carabanchel and Villaverde.