Perales de Tajuña

Municipality in Community of Madrid, Spain

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40°14′N 3°21′W / 40.233°N 3.350°W / 40.233; -3.350CountrySpainRegionCommunity of MadridGovernment

• MayorYolanda Cuenca Redondo (Since 2012) (PP)Area

• Total48.92 km² (18.89 sq mi)Elevation

595 m (1,952 ft)Population

(2018)^[1]

• Total2,831 • Density58/km² (150/sq mi)Demonym(s)Peraleño,-aProvince code28Websitewww.ayto-peralestajuna.org

Perales de Tajuña is a town and municipality of Spain located in the Community of Madrid. It is about 40 km to the southeast of Madrid in the area known as the Comarca de Las Vegas. The municipality covers 48.92 km,² and it has a population of 2,738 inhabitants and a population density of 55.97 inhabitants/km². To the north it borders with Arganda del Rey and Campo Real, to the east with Tielmes, to the south with Villarejo de Salvanés, and to the west with Morata de Tajuña and Valdelaguna.

Demographics

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1991	1,961	—
1996	1,991	+1.5%
2001	2,089	+4.9%
2004	2,358	+12.9%
2008	2,738	+16.1%

Education

In Perales de Tajuña there is one public nursery school and one infant and primary school, also public.

Architecture

Religious

Parish church of Our Lady of the Castle
Hermitage of San Isidro

Historical

Town Hall
Remains of watchtown and walls
Ruins of Hermitage of San Sebastián
Ruins of old hermitage of San Isidro
Telegraph Tower-Fortress

Nature

Risco de las Cuevas (Cliff caves)
Prado de Arriba (Top field)

Fountains

Mariblanca fountain
Round fountain
Barracks fountain
Lagasca fountain
Butrera fountain

Festivities

San Blas, third of February
Our Lady of the Castle, first Sunday of May
San Isidro, fifteenth of May
Town festival, month of August

Communications

Perales de Tajuña is well connected by road to Madrid and all the surrounding towns.

From Madrid: R-3 (toll motorway) or A-3 (dual carriageway); Exits 33A, 35 or 41
From Arganda del Rey: the old N-III
From Campo Real: M-220
From Morata de Tajuña: M-302
From Tielmes, Carabaña, Orusco, Ambite: M-204
From Valdelaguna: M-317
From Villarejo de Salvanés: A-3, Exit 41

References

^ Municipal Register of Spain 2018. National Statistics Institute.

External links

Media related to Perales de Tajuña at Wikimedia Commons
Official webpage of Perales de Tajuña Town Council in Spanish
Madrid Region Statistical Office in Spanish

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