Valdemorillo

Valdemorillo is a municipality in the west of the Community of Madrid, with a population of 13,400 inhabitants, located 38 km from the capital Madrid.

The municipality is made up of the urban nucleus and the urbanizations that surround it: Mojadillas, El Paraíso, Pino Alto Cazadero Real, Pino Alto Sector Sur, Puentelasierra, Jarabeltrán, La Esperanza, Montemorillo, Parque de las Infantas with its hermitage of Valmayor, La Pizarrera, Mirador del Romero, Los Barrancos and Cerro Alarcón shared with Navagalamella, an adjoining town.

Valdemorillo is located within the Sierra del Guadarrama, bordering on the north with El Escorial, on the south with Villanueva de la Cañada, on the east with Colmenarejo and on the west with Navagalamella. Within the municipality we can find part of the Valmayor reservoir, which it shares with both El Escorial and Colmenarejo, it is the second reservoir with the largest amount of storage in the Community of Madrid after El Atazar.

The municipality is located within the Guadarrama River Regional Park. The name of Valdemorillo, has its first documented appearance in the book of the Hunting of Alfonso XI, in which he names Val de Moriello around the year 1342. During the Middle Ages, Valdemorillo had its heyday with several tile, brick and china factories, just as its mountains were used as hunting estates by different Castilian kings, Juan II and Enrique IV. Today it is a municipality with a very marked tradition linked to the manufacture of brick.