Hortaleza

Hortaleza is one of the 21 districts of the city of Madrid, Spain.

As of 2005 there were 153,939 residents.

As of 2005 17% of the population were minors, and Hortaleza was one of five Madrid districts with the youngest populations.

As of 2005 persons from France made up 1,424 of the residents, as a French community formed around the Lycée Français de Madrid main campus. In Hortaleza the French are the third largest foreign group after the Ecuadorians and Colombians, and there are more French speakers in Hortaleza than those of Moroccan Arabic, Peruvian Spanish, and Romanian. There is a French bookshop, Frañol, and a French nursery, Pomme D'Api.