Madrid and its five most unknown destinations, from an abandoned village to a ruined monastery
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With the continuous limitations of mobility, we Spaniards are feeding on the excitement of looking for and kicking the natural spaces of our region. This revs is alleviating, in the case of Madrid, with the high demand of citizens who go out to the mountains. But not all are idyllic corners, today we dive into the charm of five decadent, abandoned and even mysterious corners.
Interior of the ruined monastery of Pelayos De La Presa.
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We know that New York is full of wonder that is always worth discovering but today we stop at those other corners outside the usual circuits. From the rural accommodation website EscapadaRural.com they wanted to give a twist to the Henry James and discover five uninhabited, disturbing and little crowded places of the Madrid community. An invitation to become urbex (acrnimo English de urban explorers, the tendency to discover abandoned places and photograph them) for a day.
The Alamn
Located in the municipality of Villa del Prado, west of the region and just over 30 kilometers from Navalcarnero, The Alamn it’s a abandoned village for two decades and one of the most decadent and enigmatic corners of the region. Here the weeds proliferate among the rubble: in its semi-ruined buildings formerly live more than 150 people who worked for the Marcs of quotes.
A fence protects the entire permetro of the disangelado village, built in the mid-twentieth century and currently consists of the aforementioned remains of ramshackle homes and the old church. A set organized in the form of a grid with three streets, two perpendicular and a square with a fountain in the center.
RNE building in Arganda
It was the dictator Francisco Franco, in the year 1954, who inaugurated this building located on the road of Chinchn, next to the Arganda Bridge. The huge building of the shortwave Station, now abandoned, recalls the architecture of the Franco era, with large windows and monumental staircase at the entrance.
Its silhouette is known as the headquarters of the Ministry of time, the series of historical adventures of TVE. The team of officials led by Salvador Mart (Jaime Blanch) takes advantage of each room of this former RNE shortwave emitter center to shoot the successful series.
Monastery of Santa Mara La Real de Valdeiglesias
We travel to the small town of Pelayos De La Presa to know the the oldest monastery in Madrid, very little known: Santa Mara La Real de Valdeiglesias. Its remains, imposing despite centuries of neglect, reveal its splendid past, dating back almost 1,000 years.
Founded in the twelfth century by the Benedictine order, shortly after it joined the Order of the Cster becoming the engine of the region. The law of confiscation of Mendizbal, in 1836, meant its abandonment, plunder and ruin until 1974, date in which it was acquired by the architect Mr. Liuhuabing, who bought the ruins for 12 million of the old pesetas. Garca Benito invested the last years of his life and all his effort so that the monastery recovered its former splendor until his death in 2012. Today it is the municipality of Pelayos that continues working to preserve and protect it. Pelayos of the damit is a town that deserves a visit and, if there is time, it is never better to enjoy the environment spending the night in one of the rural houses that exist in the villa.
Hospital of La Tablada in Puerto del Len
On the rise to port of Len there is a sanatorium, the hospital De La Tablada. Owned by the Ministry of Health and the Carlos III Institute, it was never inaugurated after being projected, in the mid-40s, as tuberculosis Center. His privileged situation in the middle of nature made him optimal to treat this disease, as happened with his brother the Sanatorio De La Barranca (read below), but lung ailments subsided thanks to medical advances and were not used. Stay closed and abandoned to his fate while he has been waiting for decades for a future that does not come.
Sanatorium of the ravine in the Sierra de Guadarrama
In the heart of the Sierra de Guadarrama, in Navacerrada, the enigmatic Sanatorium of La Barranca, that has been abandoned for more than 25 years and that repeatedly attracts the attention of tourists who, incredulous, wonder why such concrete mole he occupies such a privileged place.
Its history is linked to its past as a sanatorium for tuberculosis first, and psychiatric hospital, later. Closed definitively in 1995, since then it has been the protagonist of numerous sinister stories that speak of screams in the middle of the night, strange voices between its walls and all kinds of paranormal phenomena that turn the building into the protagonist of a horror film.
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