In recent times, a rural-urban divide in political attitudes and voting behavior has emerged in European established democracies. In a nutshell, inhabitants of cities are usually found to be more left-wing than citizens that live in rural areas. Among urban areas, the capital city of the country is one of the most (if not the most) progressive place in every European democracy except for one: Madrid. By using data from the first ten waves of the European Social Survey, this paper is making the following contributions. First, we show that the political attitudes of the people living in the capital of European democracies are consistently more liberal than the attitudes of the people living in other urban areas and the rural areas of the countries with one single exception in Western Europe: Spain. This effect exists irrespective of the specific dimension or issue under