New Castle of Manzanares el Real with an arch between them. 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
Francisco de Manzanares y Dardos de Zamora, natives of Ronda (Spain). In 1613, was appointed Mateo Leal de Ayala, as lieutenant governor of the Río de la Plata and Francisco de Salas and Francisco de Manzanares, occupied the positions of alcaldes of first and second vote of the city. As a member of the council, Manzanares participated in the funeral honors performed to Diego Marín de Negrón, governor of Buenos Aires, who died in the city in 1613. And also participating in the swearing of Francés de Beaumont y Navarra, as the new governor. Francisco de Manzanares y Dardos held the position of Alguacil mayor