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La Moraleja is an affluent residential district of
Localisation
." ''Lycée Français de Madrid''. Retrieved on 17 January 2015. "Saint-Exupéry Camino Ancho, 85 28109 - Alcobendas Madrid" Scandinavian School in Madrid has English and Swedish sections. Other La Moraleja private schools include Kings College, Madrid, Kings College offering British Curriculum and International College Spain, which also offer the full IB Curriculum in English.
La Moraleja is an affluent residential district of Alcobendas
Alcobendas () is a municipality of Spain located in the Community of Madrid.
It forms an urban continuum with the neighbouring municipality of San Sebastián de los Reyes. The affluent residential area of La Moraleja lies within the municipal lim ...
municipality in northern 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 munici ...
, Spain
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, national_motto = ''Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond")
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, in the Madrid metropolitan area
The Madrid metropolitan area is a monocentric metropolitan area in the centre of the Iberian peninsula, around the municipality of Madrid, Spain. It is not related to any sort of administrative delimitation, and thus, its limits are ambiguous.
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; located next to El Soto and El Encinar de los Reyes. The Spanish version of Greenwich
Greenwich ( , ,) is a town in south-east London, England, within the ceremonial county of Greater London. It is situated east-southeast of Charing Cross.
Greenwich is notable for its maritime history and for giving its name to the Greenwich ...
, it is home to some of Spain's wealthiest people with sprawling mansions and several luxury golf courses such as La Moraleja Golf Club Madrid.
One author describes it as a "moneyed enclave of the rich and famous, including politicians, actors, top businessmen" with property prices which "range from the merely extortionate to the outright laughable." People such as Rocío Jurado
María del Rocío Mohedano Jurado (, 18 September 1944 – 1 June 2006), better known as Rocío Jurado, was a Spanish singer and actress. She was born in Chipiona (Cádiz) and nicknamed "La más grande" ("The Greatest").
In 2000 in New York Cit ...
, Isabel Pantoja
María Isabel Pantoja Martín (; born August 2, 1956) is a Spanish singer. She was born in the Triana district of Seville, Spain. She has released more than a dozen albums throughout a career spanning many decades, mostly of '' copla'' genre, ...
, José Antonio Camacho
José Antonio Camacho Alfaro (; born 8 June 1955) is a Spanish former football left-back and manager.
He spent 15 professional years at Real Madrid, appearing in more than 500 official matches with the team and helping win 19 major titles, i ...
, Lola Flores
Lola may refer to:
Places
* Lolá, a or subdistrict of Panama
* Lola Township, Cherokee County, Kansas, United States
* Lola Prefecture, Guinea
* Lola, Guinea, a town in Lola Prefecture
* Lola Island, in the Solomon Islands
People
* Lola (fo ...
, Ava Gardner, David Beckham, Bing Crosby, Karim Benzema, Ronaldo (Brazilian footballer), Ronaldo, Ana Obregón, Belinda (entertainer), Belinda Peregrín Schüll, and Gonzalo Higuaín live or have lived in La Moraleja. Aside from its golf courses, La Moraleja also contains some of Spain's elite private schools and sports clubs.
Education
Private schools
La Moraleja has several private schools. Runnymede College is a co-educational private school located in La Moraleja, Madrid, Spain. It is the oldest British Independent school (United Kingdom), independent school in Spain and a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference, the main representative body for independent school (UK), independent secondary schools in the United Kingdom The Saint-Exupéry campus of the Lycée Français de Madrid or Liceo Francés de Madrid is situated in La Moraleja.." ''Lycée Français de Madrid''. Retrieved on 17 January 2015. "Saint-Exupéry Camino Ancho, 85 28109 - Alcobendas Madrid" Scandinavian School in Madrid has English and Swedish sections. Other La Moraleja private schools include Kings College, Madrid, Kings College offering British Curriculum and International College Spain, which also offer the full IB Curriculum in English.
References
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