Torrejon de Ardoz

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Torrejon de Ardoz is a town in the urban area of Madrid, Spain, and has about 110.000 inhabitants.
It is a town 20 km east of Madrid on the A-2 highway (Madrid-Barcelona).
The European Union Satellite Centre, an agency of the European Union, is located in Torrejon de Ardoz.
There is also a military airbase in Torrejon de Ardoz. This base receives too business jets on the civil airport. For years, the US Air Force occupied the base under agreements made with the General Francisco Franco; protecting NATO's southern flank. One of the election platforms of Felipe Gonzalez's socialist party (PSOE) was to close the base to the American fighter wing. Keeping his election promise, the then 401st Tactical Fighter Wing's (now the 401st Air Expeditionary Wing) lease was not renewed and the F-16 fighter wing left the base in the very early nineties.
It is also the birthplace of former Toronto Raptors forward Jorge Garbajosa, Real Madrid midfielder Jose M. Gutierrez "Guti" and professional wrestler Glenn Jacobs, better known by his ring name Kane.