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Alto del León

Guadarrama, Cuenca del Guadarrama, Madrid

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Alto del León

Curiosity · Guadarrama, Cuenca del Guadarrama, Madrid

The pass owes its name to a monument with a lion placed halfway along the road in the 18th century; taken by the rebel troops on 22 July 1936, it was renamed Alto de los Leones in 1939 and did not get its original name back until April 2000.

Photo: Contando Estrelas from Vigo, España / Spain (CC BY-SA 2.0)

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