Fuencarral-El Pardo
# Fuencarral-El Pardo

Fuencarral-El Pardo is one of the 21 districts that form the city of Madrid, Spain.

## Overview

Fuencarral-El Pardo is the district number 8 and consists of the following neighborhoods: El Pardo (81), Fuentelarreina (82), Peñagrande (83), Pilar (84), La Paz (85), Valverde (86), Mirasierra (87) and El Goloso (88).

Despite its being a part of a capital city, El Pardo with its woods and river is an ecologically important landscape. It enjoyed protection from development as a hunting estate associated with the Royal Palace of El Pardo. In the 1980s the European Union designated the Monte de El Pardo as a Special Protection Area for bird-life.

## Geography

### Subdivision

The district is administratively divided into 8 wards (Barrios):

* Barrio del Pilar
* El Goloso
* El Pardo
* Fuentelarreina
* La Paz
* Mirasierra
* Peñagrande
* Valverde

## Education

The new campus of the Deutsche Schule Madrid, in Montecarmelo (ES) in the district, opened in the fall of 2015.

