Atocha

The Nuestra Señora de Atocha ("Our Lady of Atocha") was a Spanish galleon. It was sunk in 1622 in a storm off of Florida, and was found by Mel Fisher on July 20, 1985.

Atotxa is the name of the field of the football team Real Sociedad from San Sebastián.

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The Estación de Atocha is the largest train station in Madrid, Spain. It is the primary station serving commuter trains, intercity and regional trains from the south, and the AVE high-speed trains from Seville and Catalonia. These train services are run by the Spanish national rail company, Renfe.

The station was Madrid's first train station. It was inaugurated on February 9, 1851, under the name Estación de Mediodía (South Station).

After the building was largely destroyed by fire, it was rebuilt and reopened in 1892. The architect for the replacement, in a wrought-iron renewal style was Alberto de Palacio Elissagne, who collaborated with Gustave Eiffel, engineer of the Eiffel Tower and the Statue of Liberty's armature.

This old building was taken out of service in 1992 and converted into a concourse with shops, cafés, a nightclub, and a 4,000 square metre tropical garden. A modern terminal by Rafael Moneo, designed to serve the new AVE trains to Seville, was added to the complex.

The main lines end in the new terminal; commuter train platforms are located underground, at the ingress to a rail tunnel extending northward under the Paseo de la Castellana.

The station, located on the Plaza del Emperador Carlos V, is served by two Madrid metro stations, Atocha and Atocha-Renfe. The latter was added when the new terminal building was constructed.

The Reina Sofía museum is in the vicinity of Atocha.

The station was targeted by nine of the train bombs and two car bombs during the March 11, 2004 Madrid attacks. Of those, the three bombs on one train exploded in the station, and four of the remaining bombs, on another train, exploded some distance away at the Calle Téllez. Two further bombs on the train at the Calle Téllez, along with the car bombs, did not go off and were destroyed in controlled explosions. It was speculated that the aim may have been to destroy the station entirely. 89 people died on the two trains that exploded.