Manzanares El Real

Panoramic view of the town with the Sierra de Guadarrama in the background

Manzanares El Real is a municipality in the province and Autonomous Community of Madrid, located at the foot of the Sierra de Guadarrama and on the banks of the Santillana reservoir formed by the waters of the Manzanares river. King Alfonso X the Wise incorporated these places into the Crown and at the end of the 14th century Juan I ceded the territory to Pedro González de Mendoza, being precisely with the saga of the Mendoza when it is then El Real de Manzanares lives its maximum splendor, during the following two centuries. It should be noted that Manzanares is the cradle of Madrid's Autonomy, its castle being chosen in 1982 for the celebration of the act of constitution of the Assembly of Parliamentarians of Madrid.