The Stone Quarries of Colmenar


The subsoil of Colmenar is abundant of limestone layers of medium quality and quite sensible to low temperatures. But by a caprice of the nature, in a reduced perimeter of 30 Ha it has been formed a singular seam of whiter limestone of extraordinary quality and beauty. 

Colmenaretes (people from Colmenar) removed it from the Earth entrails and made possible to be used in the Real Palaces of Madrid and Aranjuez and in innumerable monuments of Madrid, being a preferred element for sculptors.