History of Las Rozas
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According to some historians Las Rozas could to be the old one Miacum, name of the one that the city drifts of Madrid, for which would be able to have its origin in the century III. Las Rozas is found them on the road that carried since Segovia to Titulcia, for which its origin would be able due to this circumstance.
The first documents that refer al place of Las Rozas they are of the year 1376, although seems shown that its antiguedad is greater. SAID reference appears in the volume V of the "HISTORIC RELATIONS-GEOGRAPHICAL-STATISTICAL" of the towns of Spain that was written during the reign of Felipe II and that is kept in the Library of the Monastery of El Escorial.
The Pasture of Holy María of the Retamar appears mentioned in a letter dated to November 18, 1303 on the lawsuit between Madrid and Segovia by those lands in which also is mentioned to Galapagar, Torrelodones and Colmenarejo. The legend says that was there where appeared the Virgin of the Retamar, the image that was carved then in its honor is not the one that today itself scallop in the Church of San Miguel and that serves for the processions that carry the Virgin to the new hermitage that was built in the years 90, a little more near the town that the original one, next to Dehesa de Navalcarbón.
During the reign of Carlos III is projected to create a channel útopico that a the river Guadarrama with the apple Orchards and this with the Cut until arriving al Oceano by Lisbon. Very near the oak Grove of Them you Graze, in Them Kill, we can find the remainders of the prey that was built for this proposito.
In a map of the year 1755, the name appears of you Kill High (Las Matas), that was populated with laborers that built the highway that carried to Segovia. Subsequently it was of the factory of RENFE of the one that been nourished said nucleo urban.
During the Spanish civil war you Graze became zone Them of large battles, sample of it are the bunkers that still today can be observed in the Pasture of Navalcarbón.
In the winter of 1936 the pro-franco troops they advanced for the west of Madrid since the bases of Brunete, Villaviciosa de Odón and Camp. In the middle of the fog and low temperature , republican and nationalist, supported by the aviation they signed one of the hardest battles of the civil War in Madrid. The inhabitants of Las Rozas took refuge in other places of the Saw as the caves of Hoyo de Manzanares, to these roceños subsequently I am called them sly.
The Church of San Miguel and all the dwellings are destroyed completely, al to finalize the war the Department of the Government created the general Direction of Regions Devastated for the reconstruction of the towns destroyed by the war, among them was found Las Rozas.
