Algodor is a small settlement between

Toledo Toledo most commonly refers to: * Toledo, Spain, a city in Spain * Province of Toledo, Spain * Toledo, Ohio, a city in the United States Toledo may also refer to: Places Belize * Toledo District * Toledo Settlement Bolivia * Toledo, O ...

and

Aranjuez Aranjuez () is a city and municipality of Spain, part of the Community of Madrid. Located in the southern end of the region, the main urban nucleus lies on the left bank of Tagus, a bit upstream the discharge of the Jarama. , the municipality h ...

, Spain. The locality is within the municipal limits of Aranjuez and is in the

Community of Madrid The Community of Madrid (; es, Comunidad de Madrid ) is one of the seventeen autonomous communities of Spain. It is located in the centre of the Iberian Peninsula, and of the Central Plateau (''Meseta Central''). Its capital and largest mun ...

. It has a population of 14, but in its heyday in the 1920s there were more inhabitants and the community was provided with a school and a chapel.

Railway heritage

The most significant building is the railway station, designed by Narciso Claveria in

Neo-Mudéjar Neo-Mudéjar is a type of Moorish Revival architecture practised in the Iberian Peninsula and to a far lesser extent in Ibero-America. This architectural movement emerged as a revival of Mudéjar style. It was an architectural trend of the late ...

style. Replacing a more modest facility, it was erected in the 1920s by the railway company "Ferrocarriles de Madrid a Zaragoza y Alicante" (often known by its initials MZA). The station has become redundant since the opening of the

Madrid–Toledo high-speed rail line The LAV Madrid-Toledo is a Spanish high-speed rail line that connects the cities of Madrid and Toledo, a distance of approximately . The service was inaugurated in 2005. Route The route shares the first with the Madrid–Seville high-speed ...

in 2005. The old line between Aranjuez and Toledo has closed and there is less traffic passing through Algodor. Between 1932 and 2000 an Italian hydraulic system, developed by Bianchi and Servettaz, was used to control points switching and signalling. Part of this system is now on display at the Railway Museum, Madrid, in a replica signal box.

Ecology

The stretch of the

Tagus The Tagus ( ; es, Tajo ; pt, Tejo ; see below) is the longest river in the Iberian Peninsula. The river rises in the Montes Universales near Teruel, in mid-eastern Spain, flows , generally west with two main south-westward sections, to ...

valley near Aranjuez is a good place to observe butterflies and other wildlife. Algodor can be used as a starting point for trails exploring the area.

References

Populated places in the Community of Madrid Railway towns in Spain {{Madrid-geo-stub

Railway heritage

Ecology

See also

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