Perales de Tajuña is a town and

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

Spain , image_flag = Bandera de España.svg , image_coat = Escudo de España (mazonado).svg , national_motto = ''Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond") , national_anthem = (English: "Royal March") , i ...

located in the

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. It is about 40 km to the southeast of Madrid in the area known as the ''Comarca de Las Vegas''. The municipality covers 48.92 km,² and it has a population of 2,738 inhabitants and a population density of 55.97 inhabitants/km². To the north it borders with

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and

Campo Real Campo Real is a town of around 6000 people in Spain, around 20 kilometers east of Madrid. It includes a notable church, the Iglesia de Santa Maria del Castillo. The town was first recorded as Aldea Campo, during the Moorish period it was known a ...

, to the east with

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, to the south with

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, and to the west with Morata de Tajuña and

Valdelaguna Valdelaguna is a Spanish town in the province of Madrid. It is located southeast of the district, in Las Vegas region, 49 km from Madrid city. It is bordered by the towns of Chinchón, Belmonte de Tajo, Villarejo de Salvanés, Perales de Taju� ...

Demographics

Education

In Perales de Tajuña there is one public nursery school and one infant and primary school, also public.

Architecture

Religious

* Parish church of Our Lady of the Castle * Hermitage of San Isidro

Historical

* Town Hall * Remains of watchtown and walls * Ruins of Hermitage of San Sebastián * Ruins of old hermitage of San Isidro * Telegraph Tower-Fortress

Nature

* ''Risco de las Cuevas'' (Cliff caves) * ''Prado de Arriba'' (Top field)

Fountains

* ''Mariblanca'' fountain * Round fountain * Barracks fountain * ''Lagasca'' fountain * ''Butrera'' fountain

Festivities

* San Blas, third of February * Our Lady of the Castle, first Sunday of May * San Isidro, fifteenth of May * Town festival, month of August

Communications

Perales de Tajuña is well connected by road to Madrid and all the surrounding towns. * From Madrid: R-3 (toll motorway) or A-3 (dual carriageway); Exits 33A, 35 or 41 * From

: the old N-III * From

: M-220 * From Morata de Tajuña: M-302 * From

Carabaña Carabaña () is a small municipality in the autonomous community of Madrid in central Spain. It is located 50 km from Madrid close to the Autovía A-3, the main highway to Valencia, on the banks of the Tajuña River at a height of 625 m ab ...

, Orusco,

Ambite Ambite () is a municipality in the province of Madrid in central Spain. It belongs to the comarca of Alcalá. It has 382 inhabitants (INE 2005) in an area of , with a population density of 14.69 hab/km2. It lies above sea level. Ambite is home ...

: M-204 * From

: M-317 * From

: A-3, Exit 41

References

External links

*
Official webpage of Perales de Tajuña Town Council
in Spanish
Madrid Region Statistical Office
in Spanish Municipalities in the Community of Madrid {{Madrid-geo-stub