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
Rafael Manzanares Aguilar of Honduras. This initiative now includes 50 schools in the capital and more than 700 in the entire country. Rafael Manzanares is remembered in Honduras as a composer. He is the author of the lyrics and music of themes such as "Conozca Honduras", which describes the country and its people, "Ciudad de San Pedro Sula", "Ciudad de La Esperanza", "Ojojona", "Danlí", among others. Many of his romantic titles have been recorded and disseminated throughout Central America. Rafael Manzanares is particularly noted for investigating folk dances in the communities in which they originated and recording the dress, music and choreography. A