Chinchón is one of the most picturesque and best known towns within the Autonomous Community of Madrid and the fact that it lies very close to the capital city has not impinged on its conserving its own personality, with its dark gray and ochre colored landscapes, bunches of houses grouped upon hills surrounding its unique main Square and its winding streets that are a witness to the life and the history of the village.

Its origins hark back to the times of the Carpetanos, followed by other civilizations such as the Romans, Visigoths and the Arabs.During the Moorish empire, which lasted three and a half centuries, Chinchón belonged to the Kingdom of Toledo.

With the conquest in 1060 by Fernando I the Great and the later Reconquest by Alfonso VII in 1139, the town was no longer a part of the Moorish dominions and was now linked to the council of Segovia.

From the 15th century onwards, under the rule of Juan II, the first document that attests to Chinchón’s history appears, still preserved for posterity, in the city Historical Archive.

Although elevated to the category of Borough ("Villa") by his heir, Henry IV, the most important change during this century occurred in 1480 with the assignment of the feudal estate of Chinchón to the Counts of Moya.

It was granted by the Catholic King and Queen of Spain in appreciation for services rendered and their cooperation against Juana la Beltraneja. Fernando de Cabrera y Bobadilla, an heir of the Counts, was honored with the title of Count (the first Count of Chinchón) by the King, Charles V.

At the beginning of the 18th century, Chinchón came center stage in the country’s affairs when, on August 3 1706 during the Wars of Succession, Philip V was proclaimed king in the Main Square of the Borough. 8 days thereafter Chinchón was pillaged and sacked by the enemies’ troops led by the Archduke Charles.

Philip V never forgot the loyalty of the Borough during the war and together with the fact that at that time the county belonged to his son, the Infant Philip de Borbón y Farnesio, the King granted it the title of " Most Noble and Loyal ", which still appears today at the foot of the city’s coat of arms.

During the War of Independence, four French soldiers died in Chinchón as a result of a struggle, and the French retaliated with a vengeance; they entered the Borough and after three long days of siege, they pillaged, sacked and set fire to whatever they could not take with them, causing the death of 86 inhabitants.

It was about this time that Chinchón was incorporated finally into a part of the Province of Madrid and it was, a few years later, in 1845 when the "Society of Harvesters" was established in the Borough All of the inhabitants who were producing wine, vinegar and liquor belonged to it and the quality of its products not only won them prizes and distinctions but also the title of "Purveyor to the Royal Court " granted by the Regent Queen Cristina. This Society was also a model and a promoter of a large number of improvements the Borough was about to undergo. Amongst them was the construction of the present Theater, the refurbishing of the main Square for holding bullfights and subsidizing the railway.

The Borough’s continued loyalty to the Monarchy and its agricultural development were compensated in the 20th century by King Alfonso XIII, who in 1916 granted Chinchón the title of City, and ten years later its City Council was granted the right to be called "Most Excellent".