Torre España
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Torre España (literally Spain Tower) is a 231-meters steel-and-concrete television tower located in Madrid, Spain. National terrestrial television channels RTVE, Telecinco and Antena 3, as well as the autonomic channel Telemadrid, along with a few radio stations, broadcast from this tower.
The tower was built in 1982, conmemorating the FIFA World Cup celebrated in Spain that year. The building was administered by RTVE until the year 1989, when control over radio and television emissions in Spanish territory was given to Retevisión. It is not open for tourists.
The Torre España tower is generally known in Madrid as the "Pirulí", given the similarity between the tower and a lollipop ("Pirulí" is a Spanish word for lollipop, although Chupa Chups as a generalization is also widely used).
Also it is known simply as "Torrespaña".
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