Heritage towns in Madrid
7 towns in this province.
Chinchón's Plaza Mayor, a ring of timber balconies and arcaded facades that has hosted bullfights, executions, and Orson Welles, makes this Madrid province town one of the most distinctive squares in Spain.
A medieval walled town in the Sierra de Madrid where a Gothic-Mudéjar castle, a nearly complete circuit of Muslim-origin walls, and a river-spanning defensive gallery survive in remarkable condition above the Lozoya valley.
A town whose limestone quarries built half of Madrid, whose plaza mayor hosted medieval royal courts, and whose castle ford was crossed by Hannibal himself, Colmenar de Oreja carries an outsized history for a quiet Castilian town on the Tajo.
Founded in 1499 by the city of Segovia to hold disputed borderland, Navalcarnero grew from five farmers into a Madrid-province town that was burned four times and fought over in the courts for over a century.
A planned royal industrial town east of Madrid, its circular plaza, factory façade, and castle-palace preserving the full ambition of 18th-century Bourbon reform in stone and brick.
A former seat of the Military Order of Santiago in the Madrid region, its keep, monastery, and parish church standing together as a declared Historic Site with roots stretching back to the 11th century.
A royal seat on the confluence of the Tagus and Jarama rivers, Aranjuez holds a Renaissance palace built by the architects of El Escorial, vast formal gardens, and a human history stretching back to the Palaeolithic.