My Town Time Line (Illescas) by

achusachus12128 — 2021-04-12 09:45:40 UTC

Illescas was populated in the prehistoric times. The legend goes back to its foundation in 2621 BC. by the Greek curets who called it Ilarcuris

achusachus12128 — 2021-04-12 09:56:19 UTC

In the year 636 San Ildefonso founded a monastery of Benite nuns, dedicated to the Virgen de la Caridad.

achusachus12128 — 2021-04-12 10:01:11 UTC

After the Arab invasion of the peninsula, in 711, a fortress and some fortifications were built. Later it was taken in 1085 during the reconquest of Toledo by Alfonso VI. This king ordered it to be rebuilt and walled.

achusachus12128 — 2021-04-12 10:03:21 UTC

On March 21, 1154, King Alfonso VII signed a Letter of Exchange.

achusachus12128 — 2021-04-12 10:05:03 UTC

The sixteenth century began marked by the important patronage exercised by Cardinal Cisneros, founder of a granary, the Convent of the Franciscan Conceptionists and the Hospital de la Caridad.

achusachus12128 — 2021-04-12 10:06:12 UTC

In this century it was a place of recreation for the kings, as it had been in previous centuries, although temporarily the town lost royal favor, because during the War of the Communities, the Illescan Francisco de Guzmán belonged to the community army as captain of the Padilla companies.

achusachus12128 — 2021-04-12 10:08:50 UTC

From 1575 the council exercised the municipal government autonomously, being organized into two deputies for each state.

achusachus12128 — 2021-04-12 10:10:28 UTC

In the middle of the 18th century, according to the information provided by the Ensenada cadastre, the town had become a semi-urban nucleus with an important presence of noblemen and clergymen and with a population in 1752 of 1,481 inhabitants.

achusachus12128 — 2021-04-12 10:11:38 UTC

At the beginning of the century, French troops had dismantled a barefoot Franciscan monastery, and the remains of the building were sold in the second confiscation. A slow development began at the end of the 19th century, to which the arrival of the railway line around 1876 contributed and with it the improvement of communications.

achusachus12128 — 2021-04-12 10:12:37 UTC

With the arrival of the 20th century, a slow demographic recovery began, which culminated in a true demographic explosion in the 1960s, accompanied by the expansion of its urban center and a great industrial development of the services sector. In 1956 its population was 2,325 inhabitants and in 2001, 12,234, surpassing for the first time the maximum population figure that Illescas has had since the 16th century.