[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”100px”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n
[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column css_animation=”left-to-right”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n
The fascinating history of our people certainly surprise you.\u00a0<\/span>Are you imaginabais, for example, that these lands were already inhabited during the Neolithic?\u00a0<\/span>And you know what relationship our people with known Madrid Cibeles and Neptuno?<\/span><\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n On record, as attested by the archaeological map of the municipality, that the first inhabitants of these lands date back to the Lower Paleolithic.<\/span><\/p>\n In addition, they have found archaeological remains of Neolithic and still preserved in the municipality indications of the Celtic and Roman times.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row” content_placement=”middle” css_animation=”right-to-left” css=”.vc_custom_1527684499616{background-color: #f4f4f4 !important;}”][vc_column width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n It was at this time, during the Renaissance, when it was built which is now our most important building, the Church of St. Peter ad links.\u00a0This building dates from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, although the origin of the tower could be earlier.<\/span><\/p>\n The Renaissance fa\u00e7ade of the church has great value and has been recently restored.\u00a0Specifically, the restoration work of various elements of the cover of the XVI century ended in late 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n was also held at the same time, the recovery of polychrome hornacina located in the tower of this building, which is undoubtedly one of the most unique parts of which are preserved in the building.\u00a0In addition, also they stand out inside the church the wall paintings and a magnificent Romanesque polychrome carving of the Virgin.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column css_animation=”none” width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”804″ img_size=”full” css_animation=”slideInRight”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row content_placement=”middle” css_animation=”left-to-right”][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n Redue\u00f1a obtained the title of Villa in the year 1738. Until that date the town was sold twice.<\/span><\/p>\n The first by Philip II in the late s.\u00a0XVI, although the neighbors were able to recover the people paying a large sum of money.\u00a0And the second was in s.\u00a0XVIII, before obtaining the title of Villa.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row” css_animation=”right-to-left” css=”.vc_custom_1527684521437{background-color: #f4f4f4 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”2\/3″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n Did you know that to build some of the most famous monuments Madrid, visited daily by thousands of people, stones from the quarries that were used in our town?\u00a0This is the case of the known Fuente de Cibeles and Neptune Fountain, but also one of the most important buildings in the history of our country, the Congress of Deputies.<\/span><\/p>\n This type of rock known as dolomite.\u00a0Which it was extracted into Redue\u00f1a, and other nearby locations, is very similar to the limestone but less soluble.\u00a0During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was widely used in monuments in Madrid because of their characteristics such as color, good quality, low porosity, high durability, low solubility, good styling and polish, aspects that allow this type of stone can be used in places with presence of water, as in the above sources of Paseo del Prado.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”948″ img_size=”full”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n Other sources of the great Madrid city, like Apollo or the four sources of the Plaza Murillo, were also built with stone quarries Redue\u00f1a.<\/span><\/p>\n Stone called Redue\u00f1a, high quality and highly appreciated by stonemasons and sculptors, is a type of limestone.\u00a0Specifically, it corresponds to the Cretaceous limestones and dolomites.\u00a0In different municipalities of the region, among which Redue\u00f1a, along with Guadalix de la Sierra, El Molar, Venturada and Torrelaguna, remains of ancient quarries that operated for years they are still preserved, and where today you can see traces left by the ancient stonemasons for the extraction of stones and blocks.<\/span><\/p>\n Regarding this type of limestone, explain that different levels where these rocks are drawn differ.\u00a0The best known and features are called dolomites cream tones, but there are also white and red tones, classified as dolomicrites.\u00a0This is a class of materials usually contain geodes, which are cavities lined with crystals, in this case calcite.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”100px”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] A journey through history [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column css_animation=”left-to-right”][vc_column_text] The fascinating history of our people certainly surprise you.\u00a0Are you imaginabais, for example, that these lands were already inhabited during the Neolithic?\u00a0And you know what relationship our people with known Madrid Cibeles and Neptuno? [\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] Archeology On record, as attested by the archaeological map of the municipality,… Leer m\u00e1s A journey through history<\/span><\/a> […]<\/p>\nArcheology<\/strong><\/span><\/h6>\n
The splendor of the Renaissance<\/strong><\/span><\/h6>\n
La Villa de Redue\u00f1a<\/strong><\/span><\/h6>\n
Redue\u00f1a Stone, one of our treasures<\/strong><\/span><\/h6>\n