Colmenar Viejo
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Colmenar Viejo | |
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 Hermitage of Santa Ana. | |
 Flag  Coat of arms | |
 Location of Colmenar Viejo in Madrid | |
  Colmenar Viejo Location in Spain | |
| Coordinates: 40°39′32″N 3°45′57″W / 40.65889°N 3.76583°W | |
| Country |  Spain |
| Community |  Community of Madrid |
| Province | Madrid |
| Comarca | |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Miguel Ángel Santamaría Novoa (PP) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 182.6 km2 (70.5 sq mi) |
| Population (2018)[1] | |
| • Total | 49,498 |
| • Density | 270/km2 (700/sq mi) |
| Demonym(s) | Colmenareños |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 28770 |
Colmenar Viejo is a town and municipality of about 48,614 inhabitants,[2] located in the Community of Madrid, Spain, 30 kilometers north of Madrid on the M-607 motorway.[3] It belongs to the comarca of Cuenca Alta del Manzanares.
Main sights[]
In the town, there are many archeological sites, most of them come from hispanic- visigothic times, with household areas and burials.
The most important tourist attractions places in Colmenar Viejo are:
- Basilica de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción
- Ermita de Remedios, saint of the town
- Visigothic archaeological tombs
Physical environment[]
Colmenar Viejo's municipality has a size of 182.6 square kilometres (70.5 square miles), the third largest in the province of Madrid, after Madrid and Aranjuez.[4]
Traditional granite mining has been changing Colmenar Viejo's landscape. As a result of livestock farming, mainly cow and horse cattle, grassland has been taking a main role.
A large part of land under Colmenar Viejo's jurisdiction is inside of the (Manzanares Upper Basin Regional Park), causing that land to be under a high protection environmental level. The Navalvillar Grassland is protected by the municipality and, albeit it does not belong to the Park, it is quite rich in flora and fauna.
Demography[]
| Vertical bar chart Demographic of Colmenar Viejo between 1900 and 2009[5] |
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Cinematography[]
Estudios Tablada in Madrid used the Dehesa de Navalvillar as a filming location for films such as El Cid, Spartacus, Alexander the Great, For A Few Dollars More, La última aventura, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly and Conan the Barbarian.[6]
The television series Locked Up (Vis a vis) also commissioned a studio in Colmenar Viejo for most of its filming.[7]
Transport[]
Bus[]
Urban lines[]
- L-1: Las Adelfillas - Train Station
- L-2: Remedios Avenue - Train Station
Interurban lines[]
- 610: Torrelodones - Hoyo de Manzanares - Colmenar Viejo
- 720: Colmenar Viejo - Collado Villalba
- 721: Colmenar Viejo (by Libertad Avenue) - Madrid (Plaza de Castilla)
- 722: Colmenar Viejo (by Ronda Oeste) - Madrid (Plaza de Castilla)
- 723: Colmenar Viejo - Tres Cantos (not available on Sundays)
- 724: El Boalo - Manzanares el Real - Madrid (Plaza de Castilla)
- 725: La Cabrera - Valdemanco - Bustarviejo - Miraflores de la Sierra - Madrid (Plaza de Castilla)
- 726: Navalafuente - Guadalix de la Sierra - Madrid (Plaza de Castilla)
- 727: San Agustín de Guadalix - Colmenar Viejo
- Night bus line 702: Colmenar Viejo - Madrid (Plaza de Castilla)
Train[]
Colmenar Viejo has a train station in the outskirts of the town, which is the terminal of line C-4 of Cercanías Madrid. From the station, you can go to Tres Cantos in about 8 minutes, to Cantoblanco University in about 15 and to Madrid (Chamartin) in about 23. Since 2011, they used to pass trains to Burgos in Colmenar, but due to a detachment in the Somosierra tunnel, the trains to Burgos no longer pass through here.
Festivities[]
- Fiesta de la Vaquilla, February 2
- Fiesta de la Maya, May 2
- Festivities in honour of the Virgen of Remedios, last weekend of August
- Day of Colmenar Viejo, commemorating the villages endorsement by Ferdinand II of Aragon, November 22
Twin towns[]
Colleferro, Italy
Suresnes, France
References[]
- ^ Municipal Register of Spain 2018. National Statistics Institute.
- ^ "Cifras oficiales de población resultantes de la revisión del Padrón municipal a 1 de enero. Madrid: Población por municipios y sexo". Instituto Nacional de Estadística (in Spanish). Retrieved 24 February 2019.
- ^ "Colmenar Viejo". Ayuntamiento de Colmenar Viejo (in Spanish). Retrieved 24 February 2019.
- ^ "Ayuntamiento". Ayuntamiento de Colmenar Viejo (in Spanish). Retrieved 24 February 2019.
- ^ "Series históricas de población". Instituto Nacional de Estadística (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 6 March 2015. Retrieved 26 February 2010.
- ^ "Presentación del libro "Colmenar Viejo, Tierra de Cine"". colmenarviejo.biz (in Spanish). 4 May 2009. Archived from the original on 19 August 2009. Retrieved 27 June 2011.
- ^ Redondo, David (27 April 2015). "Así se transforma una nave de oficinas en la cárcel de 'Vis a vis'". Cadena SER (in Spanish). Retrieved 15 January 2021.
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