Torrejon de Ardoz

Torrejon de Ardoz is a municipality inside the self reliant community of Madrid, Spain. It is placed 20 km east of the town of Madrid, at the Autovia A-2 Madrid-Barcelona motorway. It is basically a dormitory town, in most cases which include flats, a large mall and a park containing fashions of many famous European landmarks. It can be reached through bus from Avenida de America bus station in Madrid approx. 25 minutes or by way of commuter teach from Madrid Atocha railway station in kind of half-hour. Torrejon in spanish way small or malformed tower. While there is no fact of the beginning of Torrejon de Ardoz, it probable dates from the 12th century, related to fortifications built to shield Alcala de Henares.

In 1843 it become the region of a brief waarfare among preferred Ramon Narvaez and senator Antonio Seoane, as part of the insurrection towards Espartero. During the opening tiers of the Spanish Civil War, the fields among Torrejon and Paracuellos del Jarama have been the site of the Paracuellos massacre, in which many Nationalist soldiers and alleged civilian supporters had been killed by way of Republican militiamen. Recently, it turned into the birthplace of former Toronto Raptors ahead Jorge Garbajosa, Real Madrid midfielder Guti, Oregon governor Kate Brown and professional wrestler and mayor of Knox County Glenn Jacobs, better regarded by way of his ring name Kane. The closing two were kids of US airmen based there.