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 "El Templo de Debod" is an Egiptian temple, situated in the center of Madrid.

"Templo de Debod", by Adriana, in flickr

Behind the two arches, you can see the temple --althought it is not clear, because the picture was taken against the sun--.

With the next picture, you will can do a better idea yourself.

"Templo de Debod", by Mariano Marin, in flickr

This temple is situated in the middle of a relative big but nice park (Parque del Oeste), on a top, where was the Cuartel de la Montaña = Barracks of the Mountain, where happened a sad episode of the Spanish Civil War.When this Temple came to Spain, it was put with a similar way like its original place: from East to West.

 To the right of the picture, --going out of the park--, you can find  two famous streets in Madrid: La calle Ferraz and El Paseo del Pintor Rosales.

"Templo de Debod, Madrid, España", by publikaccion.es, in flickr

On the left side of the picture, you can see the building named "Edificio España"; it is situated in the famous square "Plaza de España".To left side is the street named "Calle de la Princesa" and to the left side, you can get the street named "Calle Gran Via". When you go up the "Gran Via" street, you can arrive to the "Puerta del Sol".

Now, I am going to tell you the curious story of the Templo de Debod.

This Temple was a present, from Egypt to Spain, in 1968, in compensation for the spanish help, after the international call, from the UNESCO, in order to save the temples of Nubia (region situated to the South of Egypt and North of Sudan), above all the Abu Simbel´s one, which had danger of disapearance, cause of the construction of the dam of Asuan.Egypt donated 4 from the saved temples, to some different collaborator nations: Dendur, to United States (actually situated in the Metropolitan Museum of New York); Ellesiya, to Italy; Taffa, to Holland; and Debod, to Spain.

Debod is 2.200 years old.Its oldest core was built under the Pharaoh Ptolomeo IV Filópator.

In Egypt, it was situated in Debod (a little town, on tha bank of the Nilo river. in Nubia, to the South of Egypt.

The King Ptolomeo IV Filópator or perhaps the King Adijalamani ordered to build, around the year 200 a. C., a chapel in honor of the god Amon from Debod, in the little town of Debod.

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