Villaviciosa de Odon

Villaviciosa de Odon is a municipality in the western region of the Community of Madrid in Spain. The city is located 15 km west of Madrid's city center, in the western sector of the metro location. The Spanish Air Force Museum and the Universidad Europea de Madrid are placed within the municipality. Villaviciosa's quiet lifestyle and its proximity to Madrid propitiated fast and substantial improvement during the overdue 1990s and early 2000s.

Because of its proximity to the Universidad Europea de Madrid, it has end up a college city, with properly-evolved residential area and services for college students. The town includes the Castle of Villaviciosa de Odon. The first news of population fashioned in the location of Villaviciosa are of the Visigoth generation as demonstrates the necropolis discovered when the splitting of the M-501 road from Villaviciosa till Navas del Rey. They additionally realize that there has been a population nucleus at the land now occupied by way of Villaviciosa; it, this name comes from the populated quoted via Ibn Hayyan chronicler in 939, however likely its foundation might habe been earlier.

Like many different cities inside the Community of Madrid, Calatalifa changed into occupied by the Castilian troops in the course of the Reconquista, the Christian boost, after conquering Mayrit Madrid, ended with the conquest of Toledo via Alfonso VI. With human beings of three cultures, Christians, Arabs and Jews, changed into subsisting and disappeared towards the end of the 13th century.