Colmenar Viejo
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Colmenar Viejo is a town of about 44,000 inhabitants, located in the Community of Madrid, Spain
, 30 kilometers north of Madrid
on the M-607 motorway.
The most important tourist attractions places in Colmenar Viejo are:
Spain
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, 30 kilometers north of Madrid
Madrid
Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...
on the M-607 motorway.
Main sights
- Basilica de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción
- Ermita de Remedios, saint of the town
- Visigothic archaeological tombs
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 AragonFerdinand II of AragonFerdinand the Catholic was King of Aragon , Sicily , Naples , Valencia, Sardinia, and Navarre, Count of Barcelona, jure uxoris King of Castile and then regent of that country also from 1508 to his death, in the name of...
, November 22