Galapagar

Galapagar is a metropolis and municipality northwest of Madrid, Spain, located within the self sustaining community of the Community of Madrid. Of all the cities in the area, it turned into experiencing the maximum growth, basically because of immigration and the conversion of antique livestock fields into terrain for creation. Both Galapagar is served via Cercanias teach service at its station Galapagar-La Navata and to 1 end through the intercity bus service linking it With Moncloa, a district of Madrid. The name Galapagar comes from the Spanish turtle, that means turtle, as the city center changed into settled near a lake complete of turtles.

The metropolis first appears as a village in the 11th century, its importance because of the common hunting expeditions through the Spanish royalty, and being a primary forestall on the road from the capital to the Royal Monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial. Sights in the town consist of the Church of the Assumption. The Spanish writer Jacinto Benavente, who won the 1922 Nobel Prize for Literature, is buried here. The British author Malcolm Brocklehurst lived inside the village between 1982 and 1983. Bullfighting, stock-breeding, meadows and beef are the primary functions of Galapagar. The bullfighter Jose Tomas changed into born on this place.