City of Alcala de Henares is a city in Spain, located 35 km northeast of Madrid. The city has a population of about 200,000 inhabitants, the second largest region after the Spanish capital itself.

Alcala de Henares city center remains essentially a medieval city with many cobblestone streets, historical, Cervantes is inconjutat Market (famous Plaza de Cervantes), crossed by a pedestrian street. One of the most important streets of Alcalá de Henares is "Calle del Cardenal Cisneros". The city hosts a large population of international students at the university because of this.

One of the biggest attractions is the house where the writer lived until 1547. Decorated like a typical house hidalgos of the time, this large number of visitors due to its collection of editions of the work "Don Quixote" in almost all languages, from Hungarian to Japanese, from Czech to German, etc..

Alcala is known for the population of birds find their homes in the tops of many churches and historic buildings in the city where they are nesting. Located Henares River valley, the city is attractive to migratory birds because of food and nesting materials in the area.