The Anthem of the Community of Madrid was written by Agustín García Calvo and composed by Pablo Sorozábal Serrano. It has been the official anthem of the Community of Madrid since 24 December 1983, when it was published in the official regional gazette.
The anthem was composed at the request of the Government of the Community of Madrid, founded in 1983. During the process of restructuration of the country's territorial organization it was decided the Province of Madrid became a single-province autonomous community. The first regional premier, President Joaquín Leguina, tasked philosopher Agustín García Calvo with the writing of the lyrics. The later accepted the challenge at the symbolic price of 1 peseta.
The lyrics sarcastically deal with the new administrative organization in Spain and with the very same existence of the Community of Madrid. Unlike the hymns of other autonomous communities, the Hymn of the Community of Madrid barely has institutional use, relegated to just some special events, such as the commemoration of the 2 May 1808 Uprising, the regional day.
Lyrics Spanish originalIPA transcriptionEnglish translationI was in the middle: they turned me around me in circles And there I was the center. Now the circle breaks up, Now the peoples become states, and here turning in the void Alone I am left. Each one wants to be each one; I am not to be outdone: Madrid, single, free, round, autonomous, whole! May the subject look at the spins the world takes just to stay still.
I have my body: a triangle broken into the map by law or decree, between Ávila and Guadalajara, Segovia and Toledo: province of every province, flower of the desert. Somosierra protects me from the North Guadarrama with Gredos; Jarama and Henares to the Tagus take the rest. And thanks to this, I am the last autonomous entity, the pure and sincere one. Long live my master, that just so as to be something I am Madrilenian!
And in the middle of the middle, capital of the essence and power, garages, museums, stadiums, traffic lights, banks, and long live the dead: Madrid, ideal metropolis of the god of progress! What happens over there, all happens in me, and because of that civil servants in me and proletarians and numbers, souls and masses fall due to their own weight; and I am everyone and no one, political daydream. And that is my yearning, because there is a reason one says: "From Madrid to Heaven!".
References
External links Law proclaiming the flag, coats of arms and hymn of the autonomous community of Madrid .