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Guadarrama

Comunidad De Madrid, Spain
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About Guadarrama

Guadarrama is a town and municipality in the Cuenca del Guadarrama district, in the Community of Madrid, Spain. Its population is 13,032; the poopulation swells to about 60,000 in summer season. Founded by using Arabs, its name comes from uadi-er-rameil river. Guadarrama completed the repute of "villa" underneath Fernando V of Castile on November 22, 1504. Fernando VI ordered the constructing of a avenue to A Coruna thru the Guadarrama Pass, through which passed the Grande Armee with Napoleon searching For John Moore 's Army in 1808.
This metropolis became definitely destroyed during the Civil War, because it become for almost three years a battlefront. All you'll see on this city nowadays is new, constructed inside the mid-20th century. It changed into the region for some scenes within the 1964 movie The Fall of the Roman Empire. It is close to Sierra de Guadarrama, a mountain variety that is visited by way of Madrid residents seeking cooler temperatures, especially in summer.
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