Majadahonda

Majadahonda is a municipality in Spain, situated 16 km northwest of Madrid, in the Community of Madrid. It lies alongside the highway A6 Madrid-A Coruna. The Puerta de Hierro college medical institution became relocated to Majadahonda from the western a part of the town of Madrid right into a newly constructed medical complicated in 2009. Facts surrounding the authentic founding of Majadahonda aren't comfortably verifiable, even though some modern citizens of Majadahonda agree with that the founders have been Segovian shepherds who, by using the thirteenth century, were based inside the area, which, being negative agricultural land, became frequently used for grazing.

According to tradition, a small village emerged as a droving station referred to as Majadahonda. Some archaeological findings which includes the stays of a Roman-Visigoth metropolis tend to help the concept that a settlement changed into installed within the 1st century AD, earlier than being deserted and then recolonized. By the sixteenth century Majadahonda had turn out to be a right village, with a population of about 400 inhabitants. At the quit of the 16th century there have been almost hundred homes and a few 800 population.