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===Late modern history=== [[File:Aranjuez EstacionFFCC.jpg|thumb|Railway station]] Railway transport arrived to Aranjuez on 9 February 1851, with the opening of the [[Madrid]]–Aranjuez line, the second in the Iberian Peninsula after [[Barcelona]]–[[Mataró]] (not the second in Spain, as the [[Havana]]–[[Güines]] line had been opened in [[Captaincy General of Cuba|Cuba]] in 1837).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.madridiario.es/464875/168-anos-del-viaje-inaugural-del-ferrocarril-madrid-aranjuez|website=Madridiario|title=168 años del viaje inaugural del Ferrocarril Madrid-Aranjuez|date=9 February 2019|first=Sergio|last=Ríos}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.elperiodico.com/es/sociedad/20181027/170-aniversario-ferrocarril-barcelona-mataro-entrevista-presidente-renfe-7114132|website=[[El Periódico de Catalunya|El Periódico]]|title=La primera revolución sobre ruedas|date=27 October 2018}}</ref> Aranjuez was granted the title of town (''villa'') in 1899.<ref name=expansion>{{Cite web|url=https://www.expansion.com/sociedad/2015/08/19/55d444aae2704ea02b8b456f.html|website=[[Expansión (Spanish newspaper)|Expansión]]|title=Aranjuez, declarado "lugar de excepcional valor universal"|date=19 August 2015}}</ref> In the context of the [[Spanish Civil War|1936–1939 Spanish Civil War]], Aranjuez remained under [[Second Spanish Republic|Republican]] control until the end of the conflict, becoming the headquarters of the {{ill|9th Division (People's Army of the Republic)|es|9.ª División (Ejército Popular de la República)|lt=9th Division}} of the [[Spanish Republican Army]].<ref name=lalinde /> Important battles of the war such as the [[Battle of Seseña]] and the [[Battle of Jarama]] took place not far from Aranjuez.<ref name=lalinde>{{Cite journal|url=http://lalindearqueologia.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/10%20El%20Mirador_%20Alonso%20y%20Lopez.pdf|title=El mirador: trincheras de la guerra civil en Aranjuez|first1=Jesús|last1=Martín Alonso|first2=Mª Lourdes|last2=López Martínez|issue=4|year=2015|pages=147–164|journal=La Linde}}</ref> Following the seizure by the Rebel faction, a [[Francoist]] [[concentration camp]] was active in Aranjuez in 1939.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=http://hispanianova.rediris.es/6/dossier/6d027.pdf|title=Internamiento y trabajo forzoso: Los campos de concentración de Franco.|first=Javier|last=Rodrigo|journal=Hispania Nova. Revista de Historia Contemporánea|issue=6|year=2006|publisher=[[Universidad Carlos III de Madrid]]|location=Getafe|issn=1138-7319}}</ref>
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