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An ends information XVIIIth century affirms that Illescas means so much like "rest".

Illescas was populated from the prehistoric epoch. The legend mends his foundation to the year 2621 to. of C. for the Greeks curetes that named her Ilarcuris. The most ancient true information, there are the provided ones by the excavations realized in the deposit with The Cerrón, where a Celtiberian town settled from ends of Vth century an IInd century to. of C. It was inhabited also in epoch Roman.
In the year 636 San Ildefonso founded a monastery of religious Benedictines, dedicated to Virgin Mary, along with the village that spent to to be named a town dubiense, and whose place today we do not know. Together him there was constructed a small hospital and a chapel where it would place the image of the Virgin of the Charity. After the invasion Arab of the peninsula in the year 711 constructed himself a citadel and some fortifications. Later there was taken in 1085 during the process of reconquest of Toledo by Alfonso VI. This king ordered to rebuild it and to wall it.

The XVIth century began marked by the important patronage that the Cardinal Cisneros exercised, founder of a pósito, of the convent of the Concepcionistas Franciscanas and of the Hospital of the Charity. For his order the citadel and the walled enclosure were restored. A playtime place was in this century for the kings, as it it had been in the previous centuries, although temporarily the town lost the favor really, because during the War of the Communities, the illescano Francisco de Guzmán belonged to the companionable army as captain of the companies of Frying pan.

In the middle of the XVIIIth, according to the information that offers the Cove cadaster, the town had turned into one semiurban nucleus with a noblemen's important presence and clergymen and with a population in 1752 of 1481 inhabitants. Nevertheless the principal economic source kept on being the agriculture.
During the XIXth century the disentailing process affected to ecclesiastic institutions. At the beginning of century, the troops French had dismantled a Franciscans' monastery barefooted, and the remains of the building were sold in the second one confiscation. A slow development began at the end of the XIXth, to what contributed the arrival of the iron line about 1876 and with she the progress of the communications.

With the arrival of the XXth century the slow one began demographic recovery, which has reached in the real one population explosion in the 60s, accompanied by the expansion of his city center and of a big industrial development of the sector services. In 1956 his population belonged to 2.325 inhabitants and in the year 2001, of 12.234, excelling itself for the first time the number of population maximum that Illescas has had from the XVIth century. The municipality is living through his second moment of expansion and development. (Fte.-Texto Delegation to see link)

Nuclei and districts of Illescas: Balaguera, Carcavas, The Dominion of Illescas, Illescas, The Almorales, Them Negretes, The Pradillos, Moratalaz, Polygonal Ardoz, Villarreal, Towns of the Golf, Lost Vineyards