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
Manzanares River (South America) Manzanares River (South America) The Manzanares is an 80 km long river in Venezuela. It flows into the Caribbean Sea. The source of the Manzanares is at the high Turimiquire Range in Sucre State. The river flows roughly northwards for about by the city of Cumanacoa. Finally it flows by Cumaná into the Cariaco Gulf of the Caribbean. Historically this river had also been known as the 'Cumaná River', for it has an iconic value in the city of Cumaná. Alexander von Humboldt praised the pleasant atmosphere of the river banks in his travelogue "Personal Narrative of a Journey to