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What to see and do in San Sebastián de los Reyes

What to see and do in San Sebastián de los Reyes (Área Metropolitana, Madrid): 4 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 1 Nature · 1 Activities · 1 Historical milestones

How far each place is from the centre of San Sebastián de los Reyes

Dehesa Boyal of San Sebastián de los Reyes 3 km

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What to see and do in San Sebastián de los Reyes

San Sebastián de los Reyes
Village
San Sebastián de los Reyes is a municipality in the Community of Madrid, located 18 kilometers north of the capital, with which it forms an urban continuum alongside neighboring Alcobendas. The Catholic Monarchs authorized settlement beside the hermitage of San Sebastián on 2 May 1492; today, popularly known as Sanse, it has around 96,000 inhabitants and is nicknamed “little Pamplona” for its encierros, among the most renowned in the region. It sits at the foot of the Upper Manzanares Basin Regional Park, at an average altitude of 675 meters, and its territory, crossed by several streams that are tributaries of the Jarama River, ranges between 579 meters beside that river and 722 meters at the Cerro del Toro.
Dehesa Boyal of San Sebastián de los Reyes
Nature
A holm oak and pine wood of some 232 hectares included within the Regional Park of the Upper Manzanares Basin; it was set aside for grazing working livestock from 1493 and is crossed by the seasonal Calverón stream, near the highest point in the municipality. The oxen that grazed there gave the dehesa its name, its origin even predating the founding of San Sebastián de los Reyes, in 1492. It extends north of the town centre, bordering the municipality of Madrid and the Soto de Viñuelas, and is home to wildlife such as wild boar and rabbits; within its boundaries lies the municipal sports centre.
Bull runs of San Sebastián de los Reyes
Activity
Eight bull runs, seven by day and one by night, cover 810 metres along Calle Real Vieja, Postas and Estafeta to the La Tercera bullring during the festivities of the Santísimo Cristo de los Remedios; Sanse is known as the little Pamplona.
The royal decree that founded Sanse
Historical milestone
The Catholic Monarchs recognised from Medina del Campo the new settlement that thirty-two households fled from the lordship of Alcobendas had raised beside a hermitage. In January 1493 they appointed its first mayors.