Pinto, Madrid

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Country Spain Demonym(s) Pinteños Website www.ayto-pinto.es Area 62.7 km² Province Community of Madrid		Autonomous community Madrid Time zone CET (UTC+1) Elevation 604 m Population 47,594 (2014)

Comarca Madrid metropolitan area Weather 11°C, Wind SE at 0 km/h, 56% Humidity

Pinto is a municipality which became a town in the 1990s and is in the south of the autonomous community of Madrid, central Spain.

Map of Pinto, 28320, Madrid, Spain

Formerly, the belief was that Pinto sat on the geographic middle of the Iberian Peninsula, hence its name comes from the Latin Punctum, "point". It has a monument to this debatable fact..

Limits

To the North: Getafe

To the South: Torrejón de Velasco and Valdemoro

To the East: San Martín de la Vega

To the West: Parla and Fuenlabrada

Main sights

Ermita de San Antón ("Saint Anthony Abbot hermitage"). Its environment is now transformed by the construction of a mall. The hermitage had been rebuilt during the 19th century.

Ermita del Cristo ("Christ hermitage") In its interior is a crucified Christ that enjoys great popular fervor.

Iglesia parroquial de Santo Domingo de Silos ("Parish of Saint Dominic of Silos")

Éboli tower, where the princess of Eboli was held.

Centro Cultural Infanta Cristina. It was thought until recently that this building, then known as Casa de la Cadena (House of the Chain), provided accommodation for the Catholic Monarchs, but serious historical studies have disproved such a possibility.

MUSEO DE HOPIADORES Its exterior is somewhat blue pink and red

Centro Municipal de Cultura ("Local Culture Center")

Francisco Rabal Town Theatre

Regional park of the Southeast

Notable people

Alberto Contador, cyclist

Notable fact

in 2010, corruption allegations were rife and well reported in the Spanish media to do with the mayor

References

Pinto, Madrid Wikipedia

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