Parque de las presillas

Las Presillas is a peri-city park placed northeast of the municipality of Alcorcon and is the maximum environmentally enormous area of the municipality of Alcorcon, bordering the north with the M-40highway, to the south with the M-406, to the east by using the neighborhood of La Fortuna and lands of "Prado grande" and "Pedazo del estado" and to the west with the aid of the sports activities middle of La Canaleja. The Park is bodily linked to the linear park of Arroyo Butarque and has an area of 57'50 hectares. The lands of the Presillas have been occupied by means of an old military farm, property of the Ministry of Defense that when the development of the M-40 Highway in the early 90s, changed into expropriated with the aid of the City Council of Alcorcon for the enjoyment of its friends.

In its interior there are kid's facilities and various regions of live. At the beginning of the century, in view of the want to communicate the navy facilities of the Madrid-Cuatro Vientos Airport with the relaxation of Spain, it become determined to offer them with a large-gauge railway get right of entry to, which could run from the old Cuatro Vientos station to what is today the station of Leganes Central crossed all the Park of the Presillas from West to East. The single-tune operation started out in 1926 and had industrial site visitors till its dismantling in 2002. It is simple to locate stays of the railway line inside the park, consisting of the ballast and a few railway pontoon.