Villanueva del Pardillo is a municipality and Spanish town of the Community of Madrid, situated 26 kilometers from the capital of Spain and nestled in the natural environment of the Cuenca del Guadarrama. It borders the municipalities of Majadahonda, Las Rozas de Madrid, Villanueva de la Cañada, Galapagar, Colmenarejo and Valdemorillo. The municipality combines a peaceful natural environment with proximity to the capital. Much of its municipal territory is integrated into this protected natural area, a protected natural space that covers more than 60% of the municipal territory. The town has cultural, sports and festive activities, as well as the preservation of its popular traditions.
Geography The municipality of Villanueva del Pardillo is located in the central part of the community of Madrid, west of the capital of the community and the state. It is also located in the middle basin of the river Guadarrama, at an altitude of 650 m. The municipal border of Villanueva del Pardillo, concludes in the river Guadarrama east of the municipality.
Population nuclei Urban area: It is the main area of the municipality, where you will find the Town Hall, schools, local police offices, the cultural center, a sports center and the public library. It consists mainly of mostly flats and some area of villas. Urbanization Santa María: Located 1 km east of the urban area and composed mainly of single-family villas. In addition to housing there is a nursery. Urbanization Las Vegas: Located 2 km east of the urban area and composed mainly of detached houses and some housing. Until 2006 it was considered rustic soil and in this same year the area was paved, becoming considered urban soil. Also at the end of the urbanization can be found a recycling ship of paper. Los Pinos: Located on the outskirts, less than 1 km, where you can find the Juan Manuel Angelina Municipal Football Field, the Medinaceli nursing home, the Sapere Aude High School and the Los Pinos Municipal Swimming Pool.
Other areas
Aulencia Business Park, on the road M-509 to Villanueva de la Cañada. Priégola Farm.
Nature Regional Park of the Middle Course of the Guadarrama River and its environment
The Regional Park of the Middle Course of the Guadarrama River and its environment is a natural area of great environmental diversity that extends from the base of the Sierra de Guadarrama to the countryside of the Tagus depression, following the course of the Guadarrama and Aulencia rivers.
The public use of the Natural Spaces is one of the basic pillars in its management, and encompasses the set of activities related to recreation, culture and education that are developed in it. From this area the fundamental objective is to make known the natural values of the Park so that visitors value and respect it. For this purpose there are different proposals and a wide network of rural paths and roads, traditionally used for agricultural and forestry use, which also facilitates the connection between different urban centers.
There are also recreational areas, which have informative and interpretive signage, in addition to providing parking to vehicles, to allow visitors to enjoy and know this unique Natural Space. In addition, environmental education programs are developed with the aim of actively involving the residents of the Park in its conservation through leisure and recreation. Also from this same area are directed studies on historical heritage, which consist mainly in the realization of inventories of existing heritage elements in the Park.
Plant life and Wildlife Village of extensive pastoral tradition with a cattle and sheep herd, urban growth has transformed it almost exclusively in residential area. The flora composed of holm oaks, ash trees, willows, poplars and elms, scrubland, shrubs, grasslands and pines such as Pinus pinea, Pinus pinaster, Cupressus clabra and Cupressus sempervirens, also hosts a fauna according to these arboreal and shrubby species such as storks, tits, coalmen, finches, goldfinches, sparrows and swallows. Being located in the Regional Park of the Middle Course of the Guadarrama River with its tributary the Aulencia and located between the mountains of Guadarrama and that of Gredos, it becomes a privileged place to observe other animals or to make walks, excursions or any other leisure and leisure activities.
Municipal symbols
On November 7, 1997, in the Boletín Oficial del Estado, the agreement to officially affix the coat of arms and the flag of the municipality was published. The descriptions are as follows:
Municipal Coat
Flag
Municipal politic
Villanueva del Pardillo's Town Hall is represented by 17 councillors, elected by universal suffrage every four years. The municipal council is chaired by the mayor and operates in plenary sessions and through commissions.
The current distribution of the councillors, after the municipal elections held in May 2023, is as follows:
Town Hall of Villanueva del Pardillo 2023-2027 Political parties Councillors Partido Local (PLVP) PP Vox PSOE
Mayors of Villanueva del Pardillo since Spanish transition
Since 2019, the mayor of Villanueva del Pardillo is Eduardo Fernández Navarro of Partido Local and currently rules in minority with 7 councillors.
NamePortraitOffice startedOffice endedParty affiliation Enrique González Palacios 5 May 1974 15 June 1991() FET y de las JONS (1974-1979) Independent (1979-1987) PSOE (1987-1991) Juan González Miramón 15 June 1991 13 June 2015() PP Luis Sosa Gayé 13 June 2015 15 June 2019() Ciudadanos Eduardo Fernández Navarro 15 June 2019 Incumbent() Partido Local
Heritage Source:
Regiones Devastadas Housing Plan
Set of blocks and houses developed after the Spanish Civil War in successive projects that basically responded to very austere programs inspired by the popular architecture of the agricultural character, with houses of one or two floors to the street. Overall it presents numerous interventions, although the town of Regions Devastated of Villanueva del Pardillo is probably the best preserved in the Community of Madrid.
House-museum of the Master It is currently in the creation phase and aims to show the reality of rural housing from the 1940s that were built with the Plan of Devastated Regions after the Spanish Civil War.
La Casona
The initial project dates from about 1900 but was rehabilitated from 1986 to 1989. At the end of the Civil War it was used as a refuge for all those citizens who had lost their home.
The ground floor of the Casona was used as a kitchen while the rooms were shared between several families. This building responds to a style of synthesis of historicist elements. The façades develop their walls in tongadas and verdugadas of Neo-mudéjar inspiration next to openings slightly arched with jambs and brick lintels. The set is a paradigmatic example of finisecular architecture.
Throughout the vicissitudes of its bicentennial history, the building has undergone important modifications of use, interior distribution and its roof, having been recently renovated and being in an excellent state of conservation. The "Casona" is located within protected elements established with a degree of structural protection and is also declared a cultural asset.
Over the years, this building has given the citizens of the municipality of Villanueva del Pardillo a huge service, from medical office, through Adult Education Center, to Cultural Center and Library since 1991. It is currently the Municipal Library of the municipality.
Plaza Mayor and Town Hall
It constitutes the main nucleus of the buildings developed by the plan of Devastated Regions and responds to the traditional typology of Castilian square with arcades, central source and south orientation. Sensibly square has its main access at noon and two side entrances under arch. It is presided over by the Town Hall, recently enlarged at the back. The initial project dates from 1944 and the final one is from 1952. The ensemble is an attractive sample characteristic of Devastated Regions and of important citizen significance, also constituting the highest quality urban public space of Villanueva del Pardillo.
San Lucas Church
It is in perfect condition as it was recently rehabilitated due to its significance as a town landmark and as a cultural asset. Included within the scope of reconstruction of Devastated Regions, this church (1943) develops a program of construction with silver in the form of "U", including the parish center, the rectory center and the catechesis around a cloister of ogive arches semi-open to a public square generated according to a perpendicular axis to the Town Hall. This square includes an original well.
The church is of a nave with gabled roof of Arabic tile on brick walls with buttresses and masonry plinth, completed with a square bell tower in the wing of the Gospel. The set represents an excellent example of the religious architecture of Devastated Regions and is in good condition.
Water Tower
It is a perfectly preserved water reservoir that corresponds to the latest projects developed by the Devastated Regions plan to complete the pooled water supply system that was called "River Aulencia Waters" and constitutes a good example of the architecture of Public Works of that period.
Roman archaeological site Los Palacios
The archaeological site of the Roman period "Los Palacios" was identified in the Archaeological Charter of the Region of Madrid, elaborated in the years following the publication of the Historical Heritage Law 16/1985. Recent infrastructure projects (Canal de Isabel II Gestión) made possible the partial excavation of the site in 2013. With this presentation we show the value and importance of these excavated archaeological remains.
At the end of the century i d. C. in the environment of the stream of The Palace was built a Roman villa that lasted until the end of the century iv d. C. The Roman villa is a constructive design developed in the rural environment as a model of agricultural exploitation, in which besides being the residence of its owner had a series of buildings intended for the transformation of the different products collected in the environment.
This productive part of the village is called parsfructuaria and to it belong the buildings documented during the archaeological excavation. Inside this, it has been possible to identify a building that housed the complete installation of a press (torcularium) with all its defined spaces: a vineyard and storage of grapes (calcatorium), a pressing room, a pool of must (lacus)and the counterweight that made this ingenuity work.
The torcularium of Villanueva del Pardillo is, so far, the first and only documented building complete of these characteristics in the Region of Madrid.
Archaeology in addition to recovering ancient remains has to interpret the existing relationships between them and the environment in which they were produced. The furniture remains indicate us the eating habits, hygiene or technical level of production, among others. While the remains indicate other aspects such as the transformation of the landscape, politics, economy, urbanism or art. In short, through archaeology we try to identify and recognize each of the cultures that developed in our current territory.
Local Festivities
San Lucas Festivities Celebrations in honor of the patron saint of the municipality San Lucas the Evangelist are held in mid-October around 18 October.
They begin with the preaching from the balcony of the City Hall, which gives way to the traditional caldereta, and pass between religious acts and a complete festive and cultural program. The program includes pyrotechnic shows, musical events, day and night sessions, as well as children’s, youth, cultural and sports activities, designed for all audiences.