CAMPO REAL
In privileged of pastoral tradition, on the region of the Countryside and within the Henares Corridor, rises Campo Real.
Location of the municipality
Located in an area of Campiñas east of the Community of Madrid, known as the Madrid Alcarria. The town is located on the moor, giving way to the Barranco de la Vega.
It belongs to the Arganda judicial, Region of La Alcarria, Madrid province.
Neighboring Municipalities
North: Loeches and Pozuelo del Rey
South: Perales de Tajuña
West: Arganda del Rey
East: Valdiclecha
Geographic Data
Area: 61,8 Km²
Altitude: 777m
Latitude: 40° 20’ 18’’N
Longitude: 3° 22’ 53.18’’O
History
Campo Real has an ancient origin, his name is attached to ancestral tradition, and it has never ceased to be “field”. The first was the name given to Village of Field, to mid-tenth century. During the Moorish Almoacid field called, until 1047 when it was released by Ferdinand I the Great, first king of Castile. In 1048 he fell into the hands blackberries and was finally conquered in 1118 by the Archbishop of Toledo. The final name of Campo Real and the title of town in 1580 was received from the hands of Felipe II.
Patrimony
Real Field we appeal to both its historic and natural environment that surrounds. Take a walk through its streets, we will not only recover the intimate flavor of an agricultural people but admire the richness of its architectural heritage and taste the products of their land.
The historical reference Campo Real is the church Santa Maria del Castillo, Provincial Historic Artistic Monument in November 1981.
His past is very old and seems to have been a Templar monastery of the Hospitaller Order of St. John. They built their castle on a hill hospital or height, which may explain the name of the church of Santa María del Castillo keeps inside unrecognized treasures and worthy of visit. The interior of the building and the head must have been built in the twelfth century or XIII but the rest was rebuilt due to a fire in the seventeenth century and is worth climbing the staircase lined with images of the twelve apostles, to devise a view of the town and its surroundings.
A tour of the chapels of the town also shows the religious wealth that once enjoyed Campo Real. First, the Chapel of the Holy Christ of the Rock, located behind the Plaza Mayor, is a building with a nave of the eighteenth century, stone façade lined with plaster and slightly elliptical dome. On the outskirts of town is the Chapel of Sorrows, rectangular structure and vaulted ceiling with boxes, sixteenth-century. Finally at the entrance of the village are the Hermitage of Our Lady of Remedies, XVI century building, with groined nave dome on pendentives. Of note is the image of Candlekeep.
Olive trees centenarians , heritage experts and farmers suffered, populate the land and surrounding Campo Real, in the southeast area of the province of Madrid. Emphasize its recognized quality products: oil, cheese and olives, we can easily acquire during our visit.
Festivities and Traditions
Celebrations of San Isidro: May 15. Dedicated to the patron saint of farmers, defining activity Campo Real. During the holidays we celebrate the Fair of Agricultural Machinery, farm products, and the “Procession of the Holy”.
Celebrations of Santísimo Cristo de la Peña: 13 to September 18. They are the most important local. Are held in honor of the Holy Christ de la Peña, campeños cough pattern, whose figure is kept in the chapel of the same name.
Celebrations of Blessed Virgin of Remedios: september 8.
Hostelery
Restaurant El Rincón de Carmen: Street Iron (Industrial Polygon Borondo)
Restaurant La Posada: Highway of Villar del Olmo, 29
Restaurant Moregue: Highway of Villar del Olmo, 14 Phone: 91 873 30 19
Bar-Restaurant El Descanso: Road of Loeches, 2 - Phone: 91 873 35 81
Restaurant La Noguera: Highway Of Locebes, 9 - Phone: 91 873 32 71
Municipal Services
Town Hall of Campo Real: Square Mayor, 1 - Phone: 91 873 32 30
Local Police: Square Mayor, 1 - Phone: 629 181 539
Health center: Highway Villar,2 - Phone: 91 873 31 24
Sports center: Ride Pozuelo, 22 - Phone: 91 873 33 12
School Miguel Delibes: Ride Pozuelo,3 1 - Phone: 91 873 31 25
Civil Guard: Ride Pozuelo,2 - Phone: 91 873 31 65
Homefor the elderly: Avenue Arganda,1 - Phone: 91 874 10 09
Children's home: Street Peaje,2 - Phone: 91 873 35 48
Pharmacy: Street Vilches, 40 - Phone: 91 873 31 21 - Street Cristo, 4 Phone: 91 873 3472.
Resource Catalog
Natural Resources
Name | Classification | Description | Other Observations |
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Olives Campo Real | Activities agribusiness | The dressing of these olives make a well known product. A base of herbs: thyme, fennel, oregano, bay leaf and onion and garlic. The origin of the tradition is aceitunera who placed the mill near the public fountain and began its cultivation, the Arabs. At the beginning of the twentieth century began large-scale production, forcing the council to establish a few hours for the use of the source, where the olives are washed. By mid-century industries were already dressing artisanal olives. | Designation of Quality Community of Madrid. They work to achieve the Protected Geographical Indication (IGP). |
Sheep Cheese Campo Real | Agribusiness Activities | Cattlemen Castellana Cooperative is responsible for producing the famous cheese from sheep milk. Its history dates back to mid-twentieth century, when a group of farmers came together to make cheese from sheep the traditional way. The cooperative has a herd of more than 2 000 sheep. | Cheese-flavored soft but intense, without itching in both the semi-hard cheese such as curing and whose only ingredients are milk from sheep, natural rennet and salt. In future work to make organic cheese. |
Olive oil Campo Real | Activities agribusiness | Extraordinary quality oil that is produced in the mill agricultural “The Industrial”. | Designation of Origin “Oil Madrid”. Virgin and Extra Virgin Oil. |
Forest Park Valdemembrillo | Recreational areas in the natural environment | With benches and tables. | Venue of the Pilgrimage of San Isidro. |
Source park | Recreational areas in the natural environment | With benches and tables. | Associated with the source of the source of the 7 pipes and Sinks. |
Park of San Sebastián | Recreational areas in the natural environment | With benches and tables. | |
Livestock Roads | Livestock Roads | Livestock Roads out of town south to the highway R-3. | |
Mountes “Vicente Carralvatierra” | Mount Reserved and Protected: Mount managed | These small patches of different managed mountain west of the municipality. | Total Area : 164,07 ha. |
IBA 075: “Alcarria de Alcalá” | Other Protected Areas. Area of Important Bird SEO Birdlife. | Important steppe area (8.000 ha.) for the Great Bustard and Little Bustard. They also raise the marsh harrier, Montagu's harrier, stone curlew, short-toed lark, Lark and Quail. | Threats: Mining (quarries abundance), industrial and urban development, infrastructure (new airport), recreation and tourism, and poaching. |
Gardens of The Source | Suburban Gardens | Watered by the spring of “The Source” | |
Vegetation | Flora and Vegetation | Mount of Oak, the romeral (Barranco) and two meadows, and Montecillo Boyal. Malls black poplars and willows. Xerophilous bushes, acacias and brambles. | |
Fauna | Fauna and ornithology | Rabbit, hare and partridge. Fox, wild boar and Bustard. | |
Hunting | Hunting | Abundant small game: partridge, hare, rabbit. |
Cultural Resources
Name | Classification | Description | Other Observations |
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Altar of the Immaculate Conception | RTPP Religious cultural: Immovables. | 1698. In the presbytery of the Church of Santa María del Castillo, and D. Graves Beltran Vélez de Guevara, Count of Campo Real and Viceroy of Sardinia. | |
Hermitage Santísimo Cristo de la Peña | RTPP Religious cultural: Immovables. | Eighteenth century, has a nave, stone facade covered with plaster. Slightly elliptical dome with very cantilevered ledge. Your headline is the pattern of Campo Real. | |
Hermitage Virgin of Sorrows | RTPP Religious cultural: Immovables. | Rectangular, with vaulted ceiling with boxes, is the sixteenth century. The entrance is double medallion vain and wiry, with a portico. | |
Hermitage Virgin of Remedies | RTPP Religious cultural: Immovables. | XVI century building, has a nave with groined dome on pendentives. At the foot are the remains of a portico with columns. | |
Church Santa María del Castillo | RTPP Religious cultural: Immovables. Listed | Renaissance-style building Herrera, a Gothic part been saved from a fire in the fifteenth century. Provincial Historic Artistic Monument in November 1981. It was originally the convent of the Order of Saint John (Knights Templar), which in his classic way of acting, built or repaired the castle on the hill hospital. The head, from the high altar to the pulpit, he had built in the twelfth or thirteenth century, and the rest in the seventeenth century, when the parish priests had eight and five sextons. It has three naves separated by Tuscan columns supporting arches, and covered with a barrel vault with lunettes. The facade has two stone towers with three bodies and cover with entrance arch of half point. In 1540, the people in the city signed an obligation to build the clock tower of the church. | It has recently been restored. From the top of the stairs overlooking the temple enjoys a magnificent view of the environment, given the elevation on which it is located. You come to see the city of cultivated and grazed Madrid.Los Templars and, before the attack, became soldiers fighting to defend Christianity. |
Altarpiece of Santiago | RTPP Religious cultural: No Immovables. | ||
Potters | RTPP Cultural and Civil: Immovables. | Remains of many Arab furnaces still standing, or are in ruins. | Should undertake their classification and protection of private property though. |
Laundry and Source. | RTPP Cultural and Civil: Immovables. | Drinking water spring called “The Source”. S. In XVI was already talk of this source with 7 channels. The spring also supplies a set of sinks and an area of orchards. | In the lower part of town (Way Coslada), recently restored. |
Legend of Cristo de la Peña | Legends, stories, stories. | Legend has it that “many years ago, where today is located the Chapel of the Holy, there was a huge rock and a drinking fountain where cattle. One day, being a shepherd with his flock in these parts, appeared a Christ. The man told his neighbors what they had seen and, although not believed him again days later all the scene. When nothing happened, and gave the minister a liar, Christ made his appearance between the rock and water and the flock ”. And this fact is the chapel built. | |
Pottery | Crafts | There are about 30 Arab pottery ovens for cooking. The first data take us back to 1752, indicating that in the neighborhood of the horse's withers and Cebrian Calvo surname gave shape to the first clay jars and jugs in their bakeries and ovens. Currently retain some pottery: “Children of War Cesáreo” work the clay tiles and flooring creating rustic style. The other pottery is the Master Jesus War “The Bolo” which continues to make pottery, pots, pans, pots, jugs, … It also has a store. | |
Santísimo Cristo de la Peña | Celebrations pattern | 3 to 18 September. They are the most important holidays and throughout the city. Religious ceremonies, cultural, sports, music and bullfighting. | The last day was organized by the “cauldron of the calf”, in which local amateur cooks prepare this stew made with potatoes and meat that is eaten by all the neighbors. . |
San Isidro | Popular Celebrations | May 15. Holy Pilgrimage to the place called Valdemembrillo, where you can enjoy a day picnic. Agricultural fair is organized with produce. Contest meals and desserts, cooked by local women. | |
Pottery Museum and Local Products | Interpretation Centres | Museum on all products in Campo Real olives, cheese, olive oil and pottery. | Open weekends and holidays from 11am. to 15h. Tours for groups any day. Phone: 918 733 230 |
Tourist Services
Name | Classification | Description | Other Observations |
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Hostel Campo Real | Hosting Services | 3 stars. 12 rooms with bathroom, air conditioning, heating, TV, telephone and Wi-Fi. Newly opened | Address: Street Flor, 3 and 4 Phone: 670095917 Web: www.hostalcamporeal.com |
Other Services
Name | Classification | Description | Other Observations |
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Municipality of Campo Real | Public Center | Square Mayor, 1 - 28510, Campo Real. Phone: 918 733 230 Fax: 918 733 261 | |
Our Lady of Los Remedios S.L. | Service station | Villar del Olmo Road, KM.8, 28510 Campo Real Phone: 918733377 | |
Oil and Lubricants S.L. | Service station | Street El Pozo, 10, Campo Real - Phone: 918733179 | |
Quake Paintball | Sport Centres: paintball | 4 scenarios exclusive to enjoy paintball in 20,000 m2. Corporate events. | Road M-209, Km. 1,2 Phone: 609 965 020 / 625 957 092 |
Porch View of the Church | Panorama | Amsterdam Street Park | Fountain Park Vista 1 |
Fountain Park Vista 2 | Fountain Park Vista 3 | Fountain Park Vista 4 | Pine Square |
Transport and Communications
Name | Classification | Description | Other Observations |
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Line 313 | Bus | Madrid (Conde Casal) - Valdilecha | Monday to Friday: 08:00a.m., 09:00a.m., from 09:00 to 14:00 and 17:00 h. to 20:00 h. (run every hour), 22:00h. |
Saturdays, Sundays and holidays do not pass through the city of Campo Real but if urbanization Park Campo Real. | |||
Phone: 918712511 | |||
Line 313A | Bus | Arganda del Rey (Hospital) - Valdilecha | Monday to Friday: 06:30h. and 18:15h. (Some of them come from the Souk Arganda. |
Saturdays, Sundays and holidays do not pass through the city of Campo Real but if urbanization Park Campo Real. | |||
Night (Friday, Saturday and eve of public holidays) 24:00 am, 01:30 am and 03:00 pm. | |||
Phone: 918712511 | |||
Line 320 | Bus | Arganda del Rey - Alcalá de Henares | Monday to Friday: 07:15 am, and 10:30 h. to 19:30 pm. (hourly). |
Phone: 918712511 | |||
Point of information http://www.ctm-madrid.es | |||
Intermunicipal Transport Lines | http://www.ctm-madrid.es/servlet/RedTransServlet?xh_TIPO=32&xh_ACCION=0&xh_TIPO_SEL=T&CODPANTALLA=12&xh_CLAVE=033000%23Campo+Real&x=49&y=5 |
Aerial View of the Church | Campo Real | Recreation site | Balustrade Sta. Mª del Castillo |
Campo Real | Campo Real | Campo Real | Cultural center S. Isidro |
Routes
Name | Classification | Description | Other Observations |
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Route “PR” | Pedestrian Routes : Hiking | Spring comes out of “The Source” and laundry, to skirt a rural property to the west of the town. Impressionist reaches places with views of the “Southeast Regional Park.” | Was marked with stakes and panels, but most are missing or in very condition. |
Links
* MAPS: Resource Map of the municipality.
* ROUTES: Routes and waypoints GPS of the World.
* WEB SITE: City Council website.