New Castle of Manzanares el Real New 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 de Guadarrama mountain range. Its construction began in 1475 on a Romanesque-Mudéjar hermitage and today is one of the best preserved castles of the Community of Madrid. It was raised on the river Manzanares, as a residential palace of the House of Mendoza, in the vicinity of an ancient fortress that
Berta Serra Manzanares Terrassa, Barcelona Berta Serra Manzanares Berta Serra Manzanares she born 1958 (60 years) is a Spanish poet and novelist. She was born in Rubí, Barcelona and studied Hispanic philology at the University of Barcelona. She published several volumes of poetry in the 1990s. Turning to fiction, she was nominated for the Premio Herralde for her debut novel "El otro lado del mundo". Her second novel was called "El oeste más lejano". Her most recent novel "Los ojos del huracán" is centred on the slave trade in colonial Cuba. She lives in Terrassa and teaches Spanish language and literature at IES