The Cistercian Monastery of Santa María la Real de Valdeiglesias has marked the history of the Presa Pelayos since the beginning of its history as a municipality, while in modern times is the dam of San Juan which has given the tour, and dynamic progress that has moved in recent decades in the lower town area of the 18 that comprise the Consortium West Sierra Resort.

Overview

Area: 7.8 km ²

Population: 2417 inhabitants

Gentile: Pelayeros

A 65 km from the capital

History

The cave paintings found in the area of nursing betray the presence of settlers in prehistoric times. Subsequently, two hypotheses are being considered. The first ensures the human presence during the term of the Visigoths, specifically Teodomiro noble life, in the eighth century, when it founded the first hermitage, while defending the birth of the second core at the beginning of the thirteenth century, about The hermitage of San Pelayo, which could take the first part of the name. The name refers to the stream of the dam which had in its vicinity. An important religious population in the area was established in the Middle Ages in the so-called hermitage is unified in the reign of Alfonso VII on William and the abbot of the monastery of Santa María la Real de Valdeiglesias. From the twelfth to the seventeenth century continued the construction of the headquarters of the dozen or hermitage in the valley, which is evident in the different styles that are reflected in its structure. In the fifteenth century Don Alvaro de Luna takes ownership of the manor, in that same century became dependent on the House of infants for a century later Charles I separate the term Pelayos for sale to the Marquis de Nava, into whose hands it remained until 1833. The monks had to leave the convent two years later, many of the auctioned land following the entry into force of the confiscation of Mendizábal. A series of fire ended up destroying the only building that remained standing walls in the late nineteenth century. Fortunately, a few years before Elizabeth II had ordered the relocation of the choir stalls, carved in walnut by Rafael de Leon, the cathedral of Murcia, where today stands as one of their pieces of great artistic value.

Pelayos of Prey is one of the towns in the Sierra west to the Civil War deprived of enjoying their railroad despite having taken his first steps for installing rail before the armed conflict.