The town, which is part along with 17 other West Sierra Tourist Consortium, has walked with ease and pride in the history of Spain and there is even evidence of his works with blown glass on the shelves of the British Museum in London, activity which developed in the fifteenth century. Gallows has reached the twenty-first century modernity after being the scene of many historical vicissitudes that have left deep imprint on their heritage.

General

Area: 47,6 km ²

Population: 2,903 inhabitants

Inhabitants: Cadalseños

75 kilometers from the capital

A little history

The remains found in the town give certainty to the possibility that the glass Gallows emerge from a settlement of the Romans, who led by Marco Fluvio occupied, giving the usual pace popularity of the legions on their way to conquer Toledo , in 193 BC. After the Visigoths arrived in 711 Arabs, whose king was ranked Rahman I maintain domination over the next three centuries, thanks to its defensive character plaza la Peña Miñana, privileged viewpoint from which he could be seen throughout the region. Muslim culture artefacts they were generous, giving us a wall, a mosque that was later converted into a Christian church, and numerous caves. In the eleventh century and after the reconquest by Alfonso VI, who granted him the title of village was repopulated establishing coexistence between Jews, Arabs and Christians. His neighbors participated in Navas de Tolosa, in the early thirteenth century and a century later John I confirms the title of Villa.

It is in this century when the county stops in the Constable of John II, Don Alvaro de Luna, who ordered the construction of the Palace of Villena, which passed in succeeding centuries by various owners until 1917 suffered a major fire that destroyed a large part , an event that required the rehabilitation by their owners. In the Glass Gallows parties focused on the proclamation as Queen Isabella of Castile and were born here and also many renowned personages of royalty until well into the eighteenth century. For all celebrations were not remember that the town was passing by Napoleon's troops in the early nineteenth later in 1833 to become part of the province of Madrid, without Navahondilla or Majadillas, Avila left on earth.