Cañete () is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...

in the Cuenca Province, Castile-La Mancha, Spain. It is home to a

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-origin castle, and of a line of walls with a gate from the same age. It is the birthplace of

Álvaro de Luna Álvaro de Luna y Fernández de Jarava (between 1388 and 13902 June 1453), was a Castilian statesman, favourite of John II of Castile. He served as Constable of Castile and as Grand Master of the Order of Santiago. He earned great influence in ...

and the origin of the

Sephardic Jewish Sephardic Jews, also known as Sephardi Jews or Sephardim, and rarely as Iberian Peninsular Jews, are a Jewish diaspora population associated with the historic Jewish communities of the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal) and their descendant ...

family Canetti (the most famous member of which is

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laureate

Elias Canetti Elias Canetti (; 25 July 1905 – 14 August 1994; ; ) was a German-language writer, known as a Literary modernism, modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and nonfiction writer. Born in Ruse, Bulgaria, to a Sephardi Jews, Sephardic Jewish fam ...

); ''Canetti'' is a transformation of Cañete, from a time when the family lived in Italy. It is also the birthplace of

Manuel Polo y Peyrolón Manuel Polo y Peyrolón (1846–1918) was a Spanish people, Spanish writer, theorist, academic, and politician. He is best known as the author of five novels falling in between romanticism and Realism (arts), realism; classified as part of costumb ...

, an

ultraconservative Ultraconservatism refers to extreme conservative views in politics or religious practice. In modern politics, ''ultraconservative'' usually refers to conservatives of the far-right on the political spectrum, comprising groups or individuals wh ...

philosopher and scholar of clear anti-semitic penchant.

References

Municipalities in the Province of Cuenca {{cuenca-geo-stub