The statue dedicated to the town Eloy Gonzalo, who spent much of his childhood and youth in the streets, has forever Chapinería associated with the war in Cuba, where the hero revealed his mark courageous. The municipality now walking paths of modernity with all its rich cargo of monumental and environmental values from the heart of the West Madrid Sierra.

Overview

Size: 25 4 km ²

Population: 1939 inhabitants

Gentile: Chapinero

At 50 km from the capital

A little history

Beyond the resonance of the name of the municipality who speak of a type of footwear worn by women of the court order not to stain the roads or in those who developed, there is certainty about the origin of the first hunters of the Paleolithic in the form of and stone axes. The discovery of the remains also confirmed the background of the Visigoths, while there is belief on the historical construction of the first houses in the pastures for grazing when Chapinería was in the seventeenth century, a neighborhood under Colmenar del Arroyo. In that same century, the Marquis de Villanueva de la Sagra calling for these individuals and they should build one of his most monumental milestones. He was also the century when its population exploded mines galena, copper and other metals, an activity which in the eighteenth century is the add for the treatment of leather. The villa was the Lordship of the Count of Villafranca de Gaitán happened in 1833 to be part of the province of Madrid.