Municipality in Community of Madrid, Spain
Guadarrama is a town and municipality in the Cuenca del Guadarrama comarca, in the Community of Madrid , Spain .
Its population is 17,063 according to the Continuous Register of 2023;[ 2] the population swells to approximately 60,000 in summer. In the 2023 Spanish general election , for the Congress of Spain the residents voted 41.29% for the People's Party , 24.54% for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party , and 19.45% voted for Vox .[ 3]
Its name comes from Arabic Wadi-l-ramla river (the sandy river).[ 4]
Guadarrama achieved the status of "villa" under Fernando V of Castile (II of Aragon) on November 22, 1504. Fernando VI ordered the building of a road to A Coruña through the Guadarrama Pass , through which passed the Grande Armée with Napoleon searching for John Moore 's Army in 1808.
This town was absolutely destroyed during the Spanish Civil War , as it was for almost three years a battlefront. All one can see in this town today is new, built in the mid-20th century.
It was the location for some scenes in the 1964 film The Fall of the Roman Empire .
It is close to Sierra de Guadarrama , a mountain range that is visited by Madrid residents seeking cooler temperatures, especially in summer.
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