Pinto, Madrid

Pinto

Town

Torre donde estuvo encerrada la Princesa de Éboli


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Pinto
Coordinates: 40°15′N 3°42′W / 40.250°N 3.700°W / 40.250; -3.700Coordinates: 40°15′N 3°42′W / 40.250°N 3.700°W / 40.250; -3.700
Country Spain
Autonomous community Madrid
Province Madrid
Comarca Madrid metropolitan area
Government
  Mayor Miriam Rabaneda
Area
  Total 62.7 km2 (24.2 sq mi)
Elevation 604 m (1,982 ft)
Population (2009)[1]
  Total 43,501
  Density 690/km2 (1,800/sq mi)
Demonym(s) Pinteños
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
  Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
Website www.ayto-pinto.es

Pinto is a municipality which became a town in the 1990s and is in the south of the autonomous community of Madrid, central Spain.

Formerly, the belief was that Pinto sat on the geographic middle of the Iberian Peninsula, hence its name comes from the Latin Punctum, "point". It has a monument to this debatable fact..

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in 2010, corruption allegations were rife and well reported in the Spanish media to do with the mayor

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