Navalcarnero | |
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  Navalcarnero Location in Spain | |
| Coordinates:40°17′5″N4°0′49″W / 40.28472°N 4.01361°W /40.28472; -4.01361 | |
| Country |  Spain |
| Community | Community of Madrid |
| Province | Madrid |
| Comarca | Suroeste |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | José Luis Adell (PSOE) |
| Area | |
• Total | 100.2 km2 (38.7 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 670 m (2,200 ft) |
| Population (2018)[1] | |
• Total | 28,305 |
| • Density | 280/km2 (730/sq mi) |
| Demonym | Navalcarnereños |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 28600 |
Navalcarnero is amunicipality in theCommunity of Madrid, Spain, located about 31 kilometres (19 mi) fromMadrid.
Sights include the church ofInmaculada Concepción.
By the end of 1499 the city ofSegovia founded the location of Navalcarnero, to put an end to the conflicts around the area. Since 1480 (when theCatholic Monarchs disposed of thesexmos of Valdemoro and Casarrubios), the territory had been progressively occupied by thevassals of the Marquis of Moya and those of Comendador don Gonzalo Chacón.
On 10 October 1499 the first Mayor of Navalcarnero was elected from the six residents ofPerales that founded the village.
Shortly after its foundation, in 1521, Alonso de Arreo,alderman andbarrister of Navalcarnero helped Segovia in theCastilian War of the Communities.
Navalcarnero was under Segovian jurisdiction until 1627 (128 years), during which it was attacked several times and burned four times by the nearby domains. The city held a lawsuit against the Marquisate of Moya that lasted 93 years for the property of the Marimartín meadows. It also protected the rest of the municipality from don Gonzalo Chacón and his descendants for 118 years (until 1617).
In 1627 the municipality bought its own jurisdiction to the Crown, becoming an independent city; it kept, however, the Segoviancoat of arms in its own.
Felipe IV married withMariana de Austria in 1649 in Navalcarnero.
In October 1936 Navalcarnero fell toNationalist forces as they advanced on Madrid.[2]John Whitaker, reporter for theNew York Herald Tribune interviewedMohamed Mizzian, aMoorish general of theNationalists, and reported on Mizzian giving two captured teenage girls, one found with a trade-union card, to some forty of his troops formass rape near Navalcarnero. Whitaker described how Mizzian "smirked when I remonstrated with him. 'Oh, they'll not live more than four hours,' he said".[3][4]
In 1937, during and after theBattle of Jarama, capturedRepublican troops were held in Navalcarnero jail. Sixteen BritishInternational Brigade soldiers were interrogated, fingerprinted and had their heads shaved there before being paraded standing on the back of a truck guarded by members of theCivil Guard and filmed byMovietone News. They were held, nine to a cell, for four days before transfer to a prison inTalavera de la Reina.[5]
The main access is through the A-5freeway. The transportation companyBlas y Cía operates a service linking Navalcarnero withMóstoles (Renfe station, lines 529, 529 A, 531 and 531 A),Alcorcón Hospital (line 529 H) and Madrid (Príncipe Pío, line 528).
Cevesa also links Madrid (Méndez Álvaro, line 536) with the housing development of Fado/Calypo, with several stops along the way in Alcorcón, Móstoles and Navalcarnero.
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