Around the Church of St. Peter the Apostle and on a large rocky granite is the Necropolis Sieteiglesias. Become part of our plan to visit sites of Madrid. It was inaugurated on March 12, 2007 by Minister of Culture and Tourism, Hon. Mr. Don Santiago Fisas Ayxelá, this site is one of the most important of Madrid. Work done since 2001 until now speak of a chronology covering the entire Middle Ages, and may correspond to the stocking that took place in this area for centuries between the IX and XI.

Some graves have been found carved into the rock of similar characteristics in other municipalities of the Sierra in El Madrileña Boal, Cerceda, Colmenar Viejo, Becerril, etc. Throughout the necropolis there are two basic types of tombs: anthropomorphic tombs carved in the rock tombs Cista.

The first response to a type of burial in which the pit was dug directly into the rock, usually oval and fusiform (bath), and sometimes anthropomorphic form (playing the silhouette of the dead) some even with the of the shoulders and lowered to the head. These anthropomorphic tombs are known as "olerdolanas" have been documented for the first time in the field of Olèrdola, province of Tarragona.

The second type of tombs, calls cista was the formation of a box from stone slabs nailed vertically around the pit, with another flagstone biggest closing the grave. These graves are related to the customs of indigenous Christian communities. Are one of the graves generally are not isolated, but they tend to form groups (usually families) coming to church. In relation to these groups is the traditionally called by neighbors the Tomb of the Kings, formed by two rock tombs carved into a smaller and separate from the rest. This group also highlighted a small niche to house the offerings to the dead.

The usual orientation of the graves in the necropolis Visigothic used to be west-east, feet to the east and head west following the rites of Christian burial, though this is still the general provision that the tombs in the necropolis of graves Sieteiglesias there are certain with an orientation that tradition identifies as a punishment for those executed. The rite of burial was related to indigenous Christian customs, washed and anointed the body, after wrapping it in a linen shroud and then deposit it directly into the pit or in the case of the tombs of cista inside a wooden box, (nails were found inside the timber a few graves) on the sand body was missing and finally sealed the tomb with stone slabs.

Although the cemetery is located in the vicinity of the Church of St. Peter the Apostle seems to be no relationship between the two since the Church was built in the seventeenth century, at a time when there was already the necropolis.

Currently the site is open to the public on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays from 11:00 to 14:00.

The tours have a tour guide who accompanies the visitor throughout the tour of the site. Price:

• Children (up to 10 years): Free.
• Adults: 1 euro.
• Groups and pensioners rates: 0,60 euros

Further information in Sieteiglesias Necropolis Guide