Somosierra
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Somosierra is a
metres above sea level, being the northernmost town of Community of Madrid.[1] The Battle of Somosierra was fought here in 1808 during the Napoleonic Wars, and the Battle of Guadarrama was fought nearby in 1936 during the Spanish Civil War
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Public transport
Nowadays the only way to arrive to Somosierra is with the following bus lines:
191B: Buitrago - Somosierra
Formerly, the train line Madrid - Burgos passed through the village (it also had a train station called Robregordo-Somosierra, although it didn’t give service to Somosierra), but since 2011 the trains are no longer passing due to a landslide in the Somosierra tunnel.
References
- ^ a b "Datos de altitud para Somosierra en la página de previsión meteorológica de AEMET provenientes del Nomenclátor geográfico de municipios y entidades de población del Instituto Geográfico Nacional". Agencia Estatal de Meteorología.
- ^ Municipal Register of Spain 2018. National Statistics Institute.
- ^ 2016 Municipal Register of Spain
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Somosierra.
- Somosierra, en la Sierra Norte de Madrid (in Spanish)
- Instituto de Estadística de la Comunidad de Madrid > Ficha municipal (in Spanish)
- Instituto de Estadística de la Comunidad de Madrid > Series estadísticas del municipio (in Spanish)
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