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  Colmenar Viejo Colmenar Viejo (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 | Cuenca Alta del Manzanares |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Jorge García Díaz (PP) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 182.6 km2 (70.5 sq mi) |
| Population (2018)[1] | |
| • Total | 49,498 |
| • Density | 270/km2 (700/sq mi) |
| Demonym | Colmenareños |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 28770 |
Colmenar Viejo (Spanish: [kolmeˈnaɾ ˈβjexo] ) 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 Parque regional de la Cuenca Alta del Manzanares (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.
Climate
Colmenar Viejo has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa) with cold winters.
| Climate data for Colmenar Viejo, 1982–2010 | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 8.0 (46.4) |
10.0 (50.0) |
13.9 (57.0) |
15.2 (59.4) |
20.0 (68.0) |
26.0 (78.8) |
30.0 (86.0) |
29.7 (85.5) |
24.3 (75.7) |
17.4 (63.3) |
11.7 (53.1) |
8.7 (47.7) |
17.9 (64.2) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 4.8 (40.6) |
6.3 (43.3) |
9.3 (48.7) |
10.5 (50.9) |
14.8 (58.6) |
20.1 (68.2) |
23.8 (74.8) |
23.6 (74.5) |
19.0 (66.2) |
13.4 (56.1) |
8.3 (46.9) |
5.6 (42.1) |
13.3 (55.9) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 1.6 (34.9) |
2.5 (36.5) |
4.7 (40.5) |
5.7 (42.3) |
9.6 (49.3) |
14.1 (57.4) |
17.4 (63.3) |
17.6 (63.7) |
13.8 (56.8) |
9.4 (48.9) |
4.9 (40.8) |
2.5 (36.5) |
8.6 (47.5) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 52 (2.0) |
41 (1.6) |
36 (1.4) |
52 (2.0) |
57 (2.2) |
28 (1.1) |
14 (0.6) |
16 (0.6) |
36 (1.4) |
76 (3.0) |
78 (3.1) |
68 (2.7) |
537 (21.1) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 1 mm) | 5.7 | 5.3 | 5.0 | 6.7 | 7.6 | 3.5 | 1.9 | 1.8 | 4.0 | 7.4 | 7.2 | 7.5 | 62.5 |
| Average snowy days | 3.1 | 3.0 | 1.4 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.8 | 1.9 | 11.4 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 77 | 70 | 61 | 60 | 58 | 48 | 40 | 42 | 54 | 70 | 75 | 78 | 61 |
| Source: Agencia Estatal de Meteorología[5] | |||||||||||||
Demography
| Vertical bar chart Demographic of Colmenar Viejo between 1900 and 2009[6] |
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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.[7]
The television series Locked Up (Vis a vis) also commissioned a studio in Colmenar Viejo for most of its filming.[8] Lately, the Netflix series Money Heist and Sky Rojo took several scenes filmed there.
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
- SE 720: Colmenar Viejo - Manzanares el Real (by Soto del Real)
- 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 village's endorsement by Ferdinand II of Aragon, November 22
Bullfighting
The Colmenar Viejo bullring was inaugurated in 1891, and has since come to be one of Spain's foremost, second only to Las Ventas in downtown Madrid. It is sometimes called La Corredera. After a renovation, it was reinaugurated in 1990.[9] It gained notoriety in 1985 when a bull named Burlero gored the popular bullfighter José Cubero Sánchez ("el Yiyo") to death.[10]
Twin towns
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.
- ^ "Valores climatológicos normales. Colmenar Viejo" (in Spanish). AEMet. 14 November 2021.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "PLAZAS DE TOROS". circuitostaurinos.es. Circuitos Taurinos S.L. 2021. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
- ^ Payeras, Tolo (5 September 2006). "Vigésimo primer aniversario de la muerte de un príncipe del toreo". elmundo-eldia.com. El Mundo El Día. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
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