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Manzanares el Real is a 8,936 inhabitant town (2020 statistics fro
in the northern area of the autonomous
The Town Square and the Town Hall Houses
- The Square has always been, and remains the place for celebrations, where local events, celebrations, and social life take place. The Town Hall Houses are peculiar because although our municipality was the head of the County of El Real de Manzanares, they did not exist as such: they were the County jail. It has always preserved its portico, the balcony, and its railings, a construction that may have been commissioned by the Great Cardinal Mendoza in the 16th century.
Official website
- History and photos
English Language tourist website
Municipalities in the Community of Madrid
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in the northern area of the autonomous
Community of Madrid
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. It is located at the foot of The Pedriza, a part of the Sierra de Guadarrama
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, and next to the ''embalse de Santillana'' (the Santillana reservoir
Santillana reservoir, also known as Manzanares el Real reservoir ( es, embalse de Santillana or ''embalse de Manzanares el Real''), is a body of water along the Manzanares river located in the municipalities of Manzanares el Real and Soto del Real ...
).
Main sights
*TheNew Castle of Manzanares el Real
The New Castle of Manzanares el Real, also known as Castle of los Mendoza, is a palace-fortress erected in the 15th century in the town of Manzanares el Real (Community of Madrid, Spain), next to the Santillana reservoir at the foot of Sierra ...
, the best conserved castle in the Community of Madrid
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. Construction commencing in 1475, it has been used in several motion pictures, most notably ''El Cid
Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar (c. 1043 – 10 July 1099) was a Castilian knight and warlord in medieval Spain. Fighting with both Christian and Muslim armies during his lifetime, he earned the Arabic honorific ''al-sīd'', which would evolve into El ...
''.
*The Old Castle of Manzanares el Real is the ruin of a former fortress, also known as Plaza de Armas. Only two walls remain standing, now integrated into a garden complex. It was built in Mudejar style of granite
Granite () is a coarse-grained (phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase. It forms from magma with a high content of silica and alkali metal oxides that slowly cools and solidifies undergro ...
with brick curbing.
*Church of ''Nuestra Señora de las Nieves'', founded in the early 14th century. It has a nave and two aisles, separated by arcades on stone columns. The nave, in Romanesque styles, ends into a pentagonal presbytery. The church has also a 16th-century Renaissance portico.
*Hermitage of ''Nuestra Señora de la Peña Sacra''.The Town Square and the Town Hall Houses
- The Square has always been, and remains the place for celebrations, where local events, celebrations, and social life take place. The Town Hall Houses are peculiar because although our municipality was the head of the County of El Real de Manzanares, they did not exist as such: they were the County jail. It has always preserved its portico, the balcony, and its railings, a construction that may have been commissioned by the Great Cardinal Mendoza in the 16th century.
Bus
There are three lines passing through the village, which are the following: * SE720:Colmenar Viejo
Colmenar Viejo is a town and municipality of about 48,614 inhabitants, located in the Community of Madrid, Spain, 30 kilometers north of Madrid on the M-607 motorway. It belongs to the comarca of Cuenca Alta del Manzanares.
Main sights
In the ...
- Manzanares el Real
* 720: Colmenar Viejo - Collado Villalba
Collado Villalba () is a municipality of the Community of Madrid, in central Spain. It is located 40.3 kilometres north-west of the city of Madrid, at an altitude of 917 meters above sea level. It has a population of 63,679 (2019), with a popula ...
* 724: Madrid
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(Plaza de Castilla
The Plaza de Castilla ( en, "Castile Square") is a roundabout in the north of Madrid, Spain.
Location
It is located in the north of the city and is bisected by Paseo de la Castellana, one of the main thoroughfares of the capital, almost at its ...
) - Manzanares el Real - El Boalo
El Boalo is a Spanish village of around 6000 inhabitants, north west of Madrid, in the Community of Madrid.
Bus
* 672: Cerceda - Moralzarzal - Madrid (Moncloa)
* 724: El Boalo - Manzanares el Real
Manzanares el Real is a 8,936 inhabitant t ...
References
External links
Official website
- History and photos
English Language tourist website
Municipalities in the Community of Madrid
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