Alcala de Henares

Alcala de Henares, which means Castle at the Henares, is a Spanish town positioned 35 kilometres northeast of the country's capital, Madrid. It stands out for its wealthy archaeology and changed into one of the first bishoprics founded in Spain. Locally, it's far normally known truly as "Alcala", but "de Henares" is appended while needed to distinguish it from a dozen Spanish cities sharing the call Alcala. The Latin name, Complutum, is every so often used. The city is the capital of its namesake place, Comarca de Alcala. Its historical centre is one in every of UNESCO's World Heritage websites.

Since his investiture after the 2015 local election the Mayor is Javier Rodriguez Palacios. The metropolis barriers were inhabited since the Chalcolithic section of the Bronze Age. Romans conquered the region inside the 1st century BC, and built the metropolis of Complutum close to a preceding Carpetanian agreement, called Iplacea. Thus, it have become the most effective Roman metropolis in the Madrid location. With 10,000 inhabitants, it reached the status of Municipium and had its very own governing institutions. After the downfall of the Roman Empire, underneath the Visigoths, it declined, even though it also became a pilgrimage destination in remembrance of the Saints Justo and Pastor.