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Cercedilla
Cercedilla () is a municipality in the Community of Madrid, in central Spain. It is located in the Sierra de Guadarrama. Background It was the hometown of Francisco Fernández Ochoa (1950–2006), an alpine ski racer known for being the first (and only) Spaniard to win a gold medal at the Winter Olympics. He won the slalom in 1972 in Japan. Less than two weeks before his death from cancer, a statue was erected in his honor in Cercedilla. Many of his siblings were also on the national ski team; his sister Blanca won an Olympic bronze medal in 1992 in France. Public transport Bus Urban lines * Line 1: Funefría hospital - High School Interurban lines * Line 680: Collado Villalba (hospital) - Cercedilla * Line 684: Madrid (Moncloa) - Cercedilla (by Guadarrama) Train Cercedilla has a train station which gives service to two Cercanías lines, line C-8 and C-9. Line C-8 connects Cercedilla with Madrid, Alcalá de Henares and Guadalajara, while the C-9 line has a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
C-9 (Cercanías Madrid)
Line C-9, formerly known as the Guadarrama Electric Railway ( es, Ferrocarril Eléctrico del Guadarrama), is a narrow-gauge mountain railway incorporated into Madrid's Cercanías commuter rail network. The line is operated by Renfe Operadora and runs through the Guadarrama Mountains from Cercedilla, Madrid to , Segovia. Although classified as a commuter rail line, Line C-9 primarily serves the ski resorts at Cotos and Navacerrada Passes, connecting with the rest of the commuter rail system with the Line C-8 at Cercedilla Station. Line C-9 is the only metre-gauge railway among the Cercanías Madrid lines. History The railway was first conceived in the 1910s as a means of connecting urban Madrid to the Guadarrama Mountains via the Navacerrada Pass. Construction began in 1919 and the section connecting Cercedilla on the Madrid-Segovia Line with Navacerrada opened on 12 July 1923 as the Guadarrama Electric Railway. The opening was attended by the King and Queen of Spain. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
C-8 (Cercanías Madrid)
The C-8 is a line and rail service of Cercanías Madrid commuter rail network, operated by Renfe Operadora. It runs from Cercedilla northwest of Madrid to Guadalajara railway station. The C-8 shares tracks for the majority its length with Madrid commuter rail service line while it also shares significant parts with lines , and . Infrastructure Like the rest of Cercanías Madrid lines, the C-8 runs on the Iberian gauge mainline railway system, which is owned by Adif, an agency of the Spanish government. All of the railway lines carrying Cercanías Madrid services are electrified at 3,000 volts (V) direct current (DC) using overhead lines. The C-8 operates on a total line length of , which is entirely double-track. The trains on the line call at up to 32 stations, using the following railway lines, in order from west to east: List of stations The following table lists the name of each station served by line C-8 in order from west to east; the station's service pattern offe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francisco Fernández Ochoa
Francisco "Paquito" Fernández Ochoa (25 February 1950 – 6 November 2006) was a World Cup alpine ski racer from Spain. Born in Madrid and raised north of the city in Cercedilla, he was the eldest of eight children whose father ran a ski school. Paquito raced in all of the alpine disciplines and specialized in slalom. At the age of 21, he won an Olympic gold medal in the slalom at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo, Japan. He is known for being the first and only Spaniard to win a gold medal at the Winter Olympics. Career Fernández Ochoa made his international debut at age 17 at the 1968 Winter Olympics, where he finished 38th in the downhill and giant slalom, and 23rd in the slalom. His first top ten finish on the World Cup circuit was the following season, a sixth-place finish in the slalom at Megève, France, on January 26, 1969. He was one of five siblings that raced for the Spanish alpine ski team and competed at the Winter Olympics (brothers Luís and Juan Manu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cercanías Madrid
Cercanías Madrid is the commuter rail service that serves Madrid, the capital of Spain, and its metropolitan area. It is operated by Cercanías Renfe, the commuter rail division of Renfe, the former monopoly of rail services in Spain. Its total length is 370 km. History Until 1989 The first railroad line departing from Madrid (the second in Spain and the third in the Iberian Peninsula) was built in 1851 between Madrid and Aranjuez. Soon the growing Spanish railway system was dominated by two large companies: the ''Compañía del Norte'' (Northern Company), who operated the lines between Madrid and the Atlantic North of Spain from the ''Estación del Norte'' (now Príncipe Pío),and the Madrid-Zaragoza-Alicante (MZA) who operated the lines between the capital and the Mediterranean and Andalusian cities from the Atocha station. Another station, Delicias, served the line to Lisbon. Other smaller companies operated from Madrid, mostly in narrow gauge. After the Civi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sierra De Guadarrama
The Sierra de Guadarrama (Guadarrama Mountains) is a mountain range forming the main eastern section of the Sistema Central, the system of mountain ranges along the centre of the Iberian Peninsula. It is located between the systems Sierra de Gredos in the province of Ávila, and Sierra de Ayllón in the province of Guadalajara. The range runs southwest–northeast, extending from the province of Ávila in the southwest, through the Community of Madrid, to the province of Segovia in the northeast. The range measures approximately in length. Its highest peak is Peñalara, in elevation. The flora of the Sierra de Guadarrama are characterized in the higher elevation Atlantic vegetation region with Juniper groves, montane grasslands, Spanish broom thickets, pine forests, and Pyrenean Oaks forests; and in the lower elevation Mediterranean vegetation region by Holm oak forests. while the pastures around the summits are fringed by juniper and Spanish broom shrubs. The mount ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Collado Villalba
Collado Villalba () is a municipality of the Community of Madrid, in central Spain. It is located 40.3 kilometres north-west of the city of Madrid, at an altitude of 917 meters above sea level. It has a population of 63,679 (2019), with a population density of about 2,400 per km². Collado Villalba has a hot summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen ''Csa''). I.E.S Lázaro Cárdenas of Collado Villalba conducts an annual student exchange program with Burlington High School in Burlington, Massachusetts. It has been managed by Professor Ramón José García Rubio for over 20 years. I.E.S María Guerrero has also started an exchange with Minervaskolan High School of Umeå, located 600 kilometres north of Stockholm, in Sweden. In addition to this school-to-school exchange, the municipality has been twinned since 1991 with the French city of Bègles, located in the Bordeaux metropolitan area in Southwestern France. Public transport Train Collado Villalba has its own train station, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blanca Fernández Ochoa
Blanca Fernández Ochoa (22 April 1963 – August 2019)''La Policía descarta la muerte accidental y violenta de Blanca Fernández Ochoa '' elconfidencial.com, 4 September 2019 was a alpine ski racer from . Born in |
Navacerrada
Navacerrada is a municipality of the Community of Madrid, Spain. It lies at an elevation of on the Reservoir Navacerrada and the entry of "Valle de la Barranca" in the Sierra de Guadarrama. Located from Madrid, it has only 2,500 permanent residences, but winter visitors increase the population. The Port of Navacerrada has a popular ski resort that is very popular with winter sportspeople. It has a ski school and various restaurants, hotels and accommodation. Climate Although relatively close to Madrid, Navacerrada has a Mediterranean climate with cool/warm summers due to elevation (Köppen: ''Csb'') or dry-summer continental climate (''Dsb'') by 0 °C isoterm, winter is also usually on average a few degrees cooler than the Spanish capital. The city has a clearly dry summer, but the high rainfall can be between spring and fall, being lower only in late winter, rather than gradually decreasing in transitional seasons. The next graphic shows the averages and record tempe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Community Of Madrid
The Community of Madrid (; es, Comunidad de Madrid ) is one of the seventeen autonomous communities of Spain. It is located in the centre of the Iberian Peninsula, and of the Central Plateau (''Meseta Central''). Its capital and largest municipality is the City of Madrid, which is also the capital of the country. The Community of Madrid is bounded to the south and east by Castilla–La Mancha and to the north and west by Castile and León. It was formally created in 1983, based on the limits of the province of Madrid, which was until then conventionally included in the historical region of New Castile. The Community of Madrid is the third most populous in Spain with 6,661,949 (2019) inhabitants mostly concentrated in the metropolitan area of Madrid. It is also the most densely populated autonomous community. In absolute terms, Madrid's economy has been, since 2018, slightly bigger in size than that of Catalonia. Madrid has the highest GDP per capita in the country. It cont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
France
France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its Metropolitan France, metropolitan area extends from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean and from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea; overseas territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the North Atlantic, the French West Indies, and many islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean. Due to its several coastal territories, France has the largest exclusive economic zone in the world. France borders Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Monaco, Italy, Andorra, and Spain in continental Europe, as well as the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Netherlands, Suriname, and Brazil in the Americas via its overseas territories in French Guiana and Saint Martin (island), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guadalajara, Spain
Guadalajara (, ) is a city and municipality in Spain, located in the autonomous community of Castilla–La Mancha. It is the capital of the Province of Guadalajara. Lying on the central part of the Iberian Peninsula at roughly metres above sea level, the city straddles the Henares River. it has a population of 86,222 which makes it the region's second most populated municipality. History Alleged identification with ''Arriaca'' A Roman town called ''Arriaca'', possibly founded by a pre-Roman culture, is known to have been located in that region. There is however no archeological proof of its existence, only references in texts such as the '' Ruta Antonina'', which describe it as being in the hands of the Carpetani when encountered by the Romans. The city, as ''Caracca'', was incorporated into the Roman province of Hispania Tarraconensis. The city was on the high road from Emerita (modern Mérida) to Caesaraugusta (modern Zaragoza), 22 M. P. northeast of Complutum (modern Alca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alcalá De Henares
Alcalá de Henares () is a Spanish city in the Community of Madrid. Straddling the Henares River, it is located to the northeast of the centre of Madrid. , it has a population of 193,751, making it the region's third-most populated Municipalities in Spain, municipality. Predated by earlier settlements (''oppidum, oppida'') on the left bank of the Henares, the city has its origins in the :es:Complutum, Complutum settlement founded in Roman times on the right bank (north) of the river, that became a bishopric seat in the 5th century. One of the several Muslim citadels in the Middle Mark of al-Andalus (hence the name ''Alcalá'', a derivative of the Arabic term for citadel) was established on the left bank, while, after the Christian conquest culminated circa 1118, the bulk of the urban nucleus returned to the right bank. For much of the late middle-ages and the early modern period before becoming part of the province of Madrid, Alcalá de Henares was a seigneurial estate of the Roma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
