City Coat of Arms
General Information
Autonomous community:	Madrid
Province:	Madrid
Postal code:	28770
Area code:	34 (Spain) + 91 (Madrid)
Homepage:	www.colmenarviejo.es
Flag of Colmenar Viejo
Map: Colmenar Viejo in the community
Politics
Mayor	Jose Maria de Federico (PP)
Population
Population:	39579 (2005)
Population density:	216 inh/km²
Geography
Area:	183 km²
Location:	40º 40' n. 3º 46' w.
Altitude	800 m

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Tourism

The most important turistic places in Colmenar Viejo are:

• Basilica de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción
• Ermita de Remedios, saint of the town
• Visigothic arqueological tombs

The Visigoths, originally Tervingi, or Vesi (the noble ones), one of the two main branches of the Goths (of which the Ostrogothi were the other), were one of the loosely-termed Germanic peoples that disturbed the late Roman Empire. ...

Festivities

• Fiesta de la Vaquilla, February 2
• Fiesta de la Maya, May 2
• Festivities in honour of the Virgen of Remedios, last weekend of august
• Day of Colmenar Viejo, conmemoring the village endorsement by Fernando el Católico, November 22

February 2 is the 33rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... May 2 is the 122nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (123rd in leap years). ... November 22 is the 326th day (327th on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...

External links

• Official web page of Comenar Viejo municipal government (Spanish)
• Colmenar Viejo bird eye
• Colmenar Viejo in the web
• Colmenar Viejo news