The term has come to the twenty-first century full of natural resources be preserved in a way that throughout history has led him to progress to a size that has not changed so dramatically as in other neighboring towns. Gathered and surrounded by trees, the town compelled to address the future not to forget their natural reality.

Overview

Area: 52.2 ^km2

Population: 838 inhabitants

Gentile: Maqueanos

A 75 km from the capital

A little history

The two Roman bridges that are in the town seem sufficient reason to believe that they were the first inhabitants of what is now VALDEMAQUEDA. Visigoths and then Arabs had to go through the term, despite the fact that neither one nor placed on other architectural presence, but there are Arabs as toponyms Atalaya, appointed by the local hill heights or the so-called Tomb of the Moro, with respect to where there are doubts about whether or not answered the last refuge of a Muslim or a Christian. Also the last part of the name, "Maqueda," which means stable, is of Arabic origin.

Restocking of Avila is strongly associated with the history of the township, when Alfonso VI decided to take this city from Toledo. But it would have to wait until the reign of Alfonso X, in the thirteenth century, so that the area was repopulated VALDEMAQUEDA, although the town is not listed as such in the chronicles until 1340, when upon Navas del Marqués. In the late eighteenth century, people are tired of the harsh economic conditions imposed by the Marquesado calls joining the crown. During the previous two centuries the town was in glass furnaces, where the left used to the windows of the cathedral of Segovia.

In 1845 the state bought the land from the Dukes of Santiesteban to sell immediately to the Dukes of Medinaceli, who in 1906 the venideron back to the Spanish Resinera Union who have been owned until 1989, when forests were acquired by private that became the game.