Perales de Tajuña
Perales de Tajuña is a town and municipality of Spain located in the Community of Madrid. It is about 40 km to the southeast of Madrid in the area known as the Comarca de Las Vegas. The municipality covers 48.92 km,2 and it has a population of 2,738 inhabitants and a population density of 55.97 inhabitants/km2. To the north it borders with Arganda del Rey and Campo Real, to the east with Tielmes, to the south with Villarejo de Salvanés, and to the west with Morata de Tajuña and Valdelaguna.
Demographics
Year | Pop. | ±% |
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1991 | 1,961 | — |
1996 | 1,991 | +1.5% |
2001 | 2,089 | +4.9% |
2004 | 2,358 | +12.9% |
2008 | 2,738 | +16.1% |
Education
In Perales de Tajuña there is one public nursery school and one infant and primary school, also public.
Architecture
Religious
- Parish church of Our Lady of the Castle
- Hermitage of San Isidro
Historical
- Town Hall
- Remains of watchtown and walls
- Ruins of Hermitage of San Sebastián
- Ruins of old hermitage of San Isidro
- Telegraph Tower-Fortress
Nature
- Risco de las Cuevas (Cliff caves)
- Prado de Arriba (Top field)
Fountains
- Mariblanca fountain
- Round fountain
- Barracks fountain
- Lagasca fountain
- Butrera fountain
Festivities
- San Blas, third of February
- Our Lady of the Castle, first Sunday of May
- San Isidro, fifteenth of May
- Town festival, month of August
Communications
Perales de Tajuña is well connected by road to Madrid and all the surrounding towns.
- From Madrid: R-3 (toll motorway) or A-3 (dual carriageway); Exits 33A, 35 or 41
- From Arganda del Rey: the old N-III
- From Campo Real: M-220
- From Morata de Tajuña: M-302
- From Tielmes, Carabaña, Orusco, Ambite: M-204
- From Valdelaguna: M-317
- From Villarejo de Salvanés: A-3, Exit 41
References
- ^ Municipal Register of Spain 2018. National Statistics Institute.
External links
- Media related to Perales de Tajuña at Wikimedia Commons
- Official webpage of Perales de Tajuña Town Council in Spanish
- Madrid Region Statistical Office in Spanish
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- La Acebeda
- Ajalvir
- Alameda del Valle
- El Álamo
- Aldea del Fresno
- Algete
- Alpedrete
- Ambite
- Anchuelo
- Arroyomolinos
- El Atazar
- Batres
- Becerril de la Sierra
- Belmonte de Tajo
- El Berrueco
- Berzosa del Lozoya
- El Boalo
- Braojos
- Brea de Tajo
- Brunete
- Buitrago del Lozoya
- Bustarviejo
- Cabanillas de la Sierra
- La Cabrera
- Cadalso de los Vidrios
- Camarma de Esteruelas
- Campo Real
- Canencia
- Carabaña
- Casarrubuelos
- Cenicientos
- Cercedilla
- Cervera de Buitrago
- Chapinería
- Chinchón
- Ciempozuelos
- Cobeña
- Collado Mediano
- Colmenar de Oreja
- Colmenar del Arroyo
- Colmenarejo
- Corpa
- Cubas de la Sagra
- El Escorial
- Estremera
- Fresnedillas de la Oliva
- Fresno de Torote
- Fuente el Saz de Jarama
- Fuentidueña de Tajo
- Garganta de los Montes
- Gargantilla del Lozoya y Pinilla de Buitrago
- Gascones
- Griñón
- Guadalix de la Sierra
- Guadarrama
- La Hiruela
- Horcajo de la Sierra
- Horcajuelo de la Sierra
- Hoyo de Manzanares
- Loeches
- Lozoya
- Lozoyuela-Navas-Sieteiglesias
- Madarcos
- Manzanares el Real
- Meco
- Miraflores de la Sierra
- El Molar
- Los Molinos
- Mejorada del Campo
- Montejo de la Sierra
- Moraleja de Enmedio
- Moralzarzal
- Morata de Tajuña
- Navacerrada
- Navalafuente
- Navalagamella
- Navarredonda y San Mamés
- Navas del Rey
- Nuevo Baztán
- Olmeda de las Fuentes
- Orusco de Tajuña
- Paracuellos de Jarama
- Pedrezuela
- Pelayos de la Presa
- Perales de Tajuña
- Pezuela de las Torres
- Pinilla del Valle
- Piñuécar-Gandullas
- Pozuelo del Rey
- Prádena del Rincón
- Puebla de la Sierra
- Puentes Viejas
- Quijorna
- Rascafría
- Redueña
- Ribatejada
- Robledillo de la Jara
- Robledo de Chavela
- Robregordo
- Rozas de Puerto Real
- San Agustín del Guadalix
- San Lorenzo de El Escorial
- San Martín de la Vega
- San Martín de Valdeiglesias
- Santa María de la Alameda
- Santorcaz
- Los Santos de la Humosa
- La Serna del Monte
- Serranillos del Valle
- Sevilla la Nueva
- Somosierra
- Soto del Real
- Talamanca de Jarama
- Tielmes
- Titulcia
- Torrejón de la Calzada
- Torrejón de Velasco
- Torrelaguna
- Torrelodones
- Torremocha de Jarama
- Torres de la Alameda
- Valdaracete
- Valdeavero
- Valdelaguna
- Valdemanco
- Valdemaqueda
- Valdemorillo
- Valdeolmos-Alalpardo
- Valdepiélagos
- Valdetorres de Jarama
- Valdilecha
- Valverde de Alcalá
- El Vellón
- Venturada
- Villa del Prado
- Villaconejos
- Villalbilla
- Villamanrique de Tajo
- Villamanta
- Villamantilla
- Villanueva de la Cañada
- Villanueva del Pardillo
- Villanueva de Perales
- Villar del Olmo
- Villarejo de Salvanés
- Villavieja del Lozoya
- Zarzalejo
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