In the far west of the Sierra West is Cinderella, business-oriented town that has maintained good relations with neighboring municipalities and has managed to move down the road of prosperity quietly but definitely up to a twenty-first century is waiting packed good prospects. Past experience, symbolized in stone Written, mixed with more contemporary approaches that are aimed at projecting the best of outdoor products.
Overview
Area: 67.5 km2
Population: 2060 inhabitants
Gentile: Coruche
A 80 km from the capital
A little history
La Piedra Escrita, built between the II and III centuries AD, was a shrine to the goddess Diana and is the recurring reference to explain the origin of the municipality. However, there are dissenting opinions on the idea that Cinderella is the birth place during the Roman era to put it into Visigothic, the origin of this cemetery is in the end. There are also options that lie in the middle of Reconquista, which further fueled the legend about the place. "With one hundred and hundreds can count your majesty" is that the mayor said when asked if the monarch could make one hundred spears. Aside from legends, the truth is that it is most likely attributable to landscape the color name of the town.
Don Alvaro de Luna, Castilla y Condestable valid Juan II, was among the properties of Cinderella, including in the Lordship of Escalona. The church of San Esteban protomartyr was built halfway between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and has been since the Gothic monuments of excellence associated with the municipality. The two outbreaks of plague occurred in late XVI and early XVII, especially the second, brutally punished with Cinderella, carrying forward more than 1,000 of their neighbors. This tragedy follows a century of glory due to the linkage of local land in Toledo and other commercial relations with the South and Talavera de la Reina. This time we have been thriving as the historical legacy roads Cordel de San Juan, which runs south of the term or the old path of Escalona. During the next century agriculture, livestock and flour mills are the main source of their resources to reach a century in which the municipality becomes part of the province of Madrid and the production of and trade in wine, oil, sausages and flour cup practically all economic activities of Cinderella. Were days when people like the grandfather of the historian Claudio Sánchez Albornoz stopped these payments by seeking wealth in the mines and made a veiled reference to the destination eventually thrive in the agricultural sector.
Places of interest
Plan de dinamización turística de la Sierra Oeste de Madrid
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