Colmenar Viejo

Colmenar Viejo
Municipality
Hermitage o Santa Ana.
Coat airms
Colmenar Viejo Location in Spain
Coordinates: 40°39′32″N 3°45′57″W
Kintra	Spain
Commonty	Commonty o Madrid
Province	Madrid
Comarca	Comarca Alta del Manzanares
Govrenment
• Mayor	Miguel Ángel Santamaría Novoa
Area
• Total	182.6 km2 (70.5 sq mi)
Population  (2010)
• Total	44,427
• Density	240/km2 (630/sq mi)
Demonym(s)	Colmenareños
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	28770

Colmenar Viejo is a toun an municipality o aboot 44,000 inhabitants, locatit in the Commonty o Madrid, Spain, 30 kilometres north o Madrid on the M-607 motorwey. It belangs tae the comarca o Cuenca Alta del Manzanares.

Main sichts

Basilica o Nuestra Señora de la Asunción.

The maist important tourist attractions places in Colmenar Viejo are:

• Basilica de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción
• Ermita de Remedios, saunt o the toun
• Visigothic airchaeological tombs

Festivities

• Fiesta de la Vaquilla, 2 Februar
• Fiesta de la Maya, 2 Mey
• Festivities in honour o the Virgen o Remedios, last weekend o August
• Day o Colmenar Viejo, commemoratin the veelages endorsement bi Ferdinand II o Aragon, 22 November

Twin touns

• Colleferro, Italy
• Suresnes, Fraunce

Freemit airtins

• Offeecial wabsteid Archived 2012-12-08 at Archive.today (in Spaingie)
• Colmenar Viejo in the 1785 map of New Castile Archived 2008-12-05 at the Wayback Machine
• Colmenar Viejo bird eye