The Complutense University of Madrid is the historical university not only of Madrid, but of all of Spain and, despite this, suffers from a tremendous carelessness. The facilities are in some cases in terrible condition; Although the teaching staff is possibly the best that can be found, the bad administrative management and the nonsense curricula mean that they can not be used well and this causes discouragement of the students, in many cases. It's a shame; It's like everything in the history of Spain: a broken hope.