Settlements similar to or like Madrid

Part of the pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). First confirmed to have spread to Spain on 31 January 2020, when a German tourist tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 in La Gomera, Canary Islands. Wikipedia

Country in Southwestern Europe with some pockets of territory across the Strait of Gibraltar and the Atlantic Ocean. Situated on the Iberian Peninsula. Wikipedia

City in northern Spain, the largest city in the province of Biscay and in the Basque Country as a whole. Also the largest city proper in northern Spain. Wikipedia

City on the coast of northeastern Spain. Capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. Wikipedia

Capital of the autonomous community of Valencia and the third-largest city in Spain after Madrid and Barcelona, surpassing 800,000 inhabitants in the municipality. The wider urban area also comprising the neighbouring municipalities has a population of around 1.6 million. Wikipedia

Capital and most populous city of Bavaria. Third-largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Hamburg, and thus the largest which does not constitute its own state, as well as the 11th-largest city in the European Union. Wikipedia