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MANZANARES EL REAL

COMUNIDAD DE MADRID 2009

CULTURAL INFORMATION MUNICIPALITY OF MANZANARES EL REAL

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SIERRA DEL GUADARRAMA

San Sebastiánde los Reyes

Alcobendas

Collado Villalba

Torrelodones

ExtremaduraN-V

ToledoN-401

AndaluciaN-IV

ValenciaN-III

BarcelonaN-II

AeropuertoBarajas

San Agustín �de Guadalix

Soto del Real

Torrelaguna

Miraflores BurgosN-I

NavacerradaGuadarrama

El Escorial

Pto. deNavacerradaCoruña

N-VI

Circuito del Jarama

Colmenar Viejo

Cerceda

Madrid

ManzanaresEl Real

Parque Regional de laCuenca Alta del Manzanares

La Pedriza

M-609

M-862

M-6

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M-608

M-608

Access from Madrid capital

By road:

M-607 (highway direction Colmenar Viejo)

until connecting, at the end of highway,

with the M-609, previously the M-862,

and finally with the M-608.

By bus:

Bus station Plaza de Castilla, bus line 724.

Contents:General information, location and connections with Madrid

What to visit:

The Mendoza Castle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5

The Old Castle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5

Location map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7

Fountain “Las Ermitas” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8

Bridge “Cañada Real”, The Old Bridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8

Parish church “Nuestra Señora de las Nieves” . . . . . . . . . . .9

Hermitage “Peña Sacra” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11

Where to sleep and eat: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12

MANZANARES EL REAL

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At a distance of 50 km from Madrid, following the highway of Colmenar Viejo, the village of Manzanares El Real

offers an interesting historical, cultural and artistic heritage to its visitors. Surrounded by an exclusive natural en-

vironment of mountain range, river and lake, it is being protected since 1930 and it was declared as a Biosphere

Reserve in 1992.

In order to learn about the historical heritage of Manzanares El Real it is required to return to the age of the pre-

historical settlements that took place in the region, known thanks to the discovery of certain archaeological findings,

amongst others some cave paintings of an infinite value.

At the same time it is allowed to suppose that the druids invaded Manzanares El Real around the year 1000 b c

of which event memories of druid rites still live on in an annual religious celebration of the village: the celebration

of the “Virgen de Peña Sacra”. Later on, during the years of the Roman conquest, the inhabitants of the enclave

started an unjust war against the invaders, a still existing Roman settlement in Manzanares being the silent witness

of that past civilization. After the Visigoth period and the Arab conquest, the village was founded in 1248 during

a period in which many people of Madrid went to Sevilla to reconquer the city from the Arabs. This movement

allowed the Segovian people to re-habit Manzanares, as it appears from the testimony that is mentioned in a

missive issued by Fernando III.

As a consequence of the settlement and the expansion of the Segovian people towards these regions in the South,

a contest started during those days between them and the people from Madrid that was solved in the course of the

years when Alfonso X incorporated these areas to the Crown, changing the name into “El Real de Manzanares”.

Juan I ceded the area to D. Pedro González de Mendoza at the end of the 16th century, just being with the saga

of the Mendoza family when El Real de Manzanares lived its maximum splendour during the 15th and 16th century.

Afterwards, it was passed by marriage into the hands of other members of the Nobility, until it returns into the

power of the Mendoza family in the 18th century, to which family Felipe V conferred the eternal possession rights.

Public institutions, Associations and, more importantly, the inhabitants of Manzanares, cordial hosts being ac-

quainted with the natural prodigy and the cultural heritage of this area, daily enjoy, take care and enrich each

remote place in this village with the aim to offer the most brilliant selection of Art, Culture and Landscape of the

Comunidad of Madrid to its visitors.

Welcome to everyone.

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The Mendoza Castle

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The Old CastleCrossing the river Manzanares you can find its remains,

which consist of only two walls. Apart from that, only a

few references exist in documents. In fact, no dates are

available of its foundation. It is mentioned for the first time

in middle of the 14th century, when Alfonso XI requested

for carpenters for the two palaces in Manzanares. The

castle is important considering that the first Duque del

Infantado wrote part of his poetic work here, although,

with the start of the construction works of the new castle

in 1475, the old fortification was sentenced to the historic

oblivion. The ground floor is square, with three circular

towers on each corner and a square one on the remaining

corner. Its circular naves constituted a construction in

mudéjar-style made of granite stone and bricks.

The Mendoza CastleBuilt on a Romanesque-mudéjar chapel which nowa-

days proudly continues to exist, the palace-fortification

of the Mendoza family is the best conserved in the

whole of the Comunidad of Madrid. Its building works

started in 1475.

The rectangular inner court consists of a structure of

large arched windows of half a point and two galleries

built on octagonal pillars. The castle has four towers

decorated with “isabelino”-style balls in the higher parts.

On the south part of the castle's top defence ring, the

gallery is of flamboyant design built on balustrades

decorated with diamond-pointed stones. The entire

castle is surrounded by a lower outside wall of which

the loop-holes carry, sculptured in bas-relief, the cross

of the Holy Grail of Jerusalem, a title that Don Pedro

González de Mendoza enjoyed.

The castle consists of an inner court with columns,

basement and six floors: ground floor, first floor in-

between, main floor, second floor in-between, high-

gallery and roof-gallery. The first floor’s Gothic Gallery

is considered as the most beautiful in Spain. Its con-

struction was initiated by the first Duque del Infantado

and finished by his son, Don Iñigo Lopez de Mendoza,

in which construction Juan Guas participated.

Rotondadel Gato

CENTRO DE �EDUCACIÓN AMBIENTAL

C. de los ArroyosC. de las Peñas

C. de las Virtu

des

C. del Arcipreste de Hita

C. de las Nieves

C. de la Cuesta

Av. d

e lo

s Tore

ros

C. de los Frailes

C. de los Panaderos

C. de Morales C. del Parque Santill

ana

C. de Herrén

C. d

e la

Rosal

ed

a

C. del Ave María

C. de la Luz

C. del Cerro de las Pascuas

C. d

el J

aram

aC. d

el Tu

ria

C. d

el M

iño

C. del Duero

Av. de la Pedriza

C. Real

Camino del Boalo

Camino de la Peña Sacra

Camino de la Peña Sacra

C. del Júcar C. d

el M

arqu

és de

Santi

lla

na

C. del Urumea

C. del Río ManzanaresC. del Ebro

C. de

l Gua

dalqu

ivir

C. d

el R

ío

Av. de la Pedriza

Av. de la Pedriza

C. de Santa Teresa

C. de Mirasierra

C. de José Antonio

C. de Segovia

C. de Navazuela

C. del Cortecero

C. del Cortecero

C. de la Cañada de los Toros


C. del Tajo

C. S

egur

a

C. d

el A

lber

che

C. d

e la

Fra

gua

C. Peral

C. de la Salud

C. del Castillo

C. de la Cañada

C. del Cura

Avenida de Madrid

C. Álamos

C. de Colmenar

C. de Colmenar

C. de los Caños

C. Real C. Huertas

Correos

C. Pa

dre Damián

C. AguasC. Viento

C. Vaquero

C. Risco

C. del Yelmo

C. del Yelmo

C. Arro

yo C

orte

cero

C. Olmo

Abed

ul

C. las Rocas

C. del Palomar

C. Altozano

C. del Cornocal

C. del Ortigal

C. de Ribera

C. de El Greco

Urb. Alcornocal

C. de TejeruelaC. de los Llanos

C. de Murillo

C. de Salvador Dalí

Travesía de los Llanos

C. del Rincón de Andalucía

C de las Peñas

C. de Leonardo Da Vinci

C. de Velázquez

C. del Portillo de Madrid

C. del Puerto del Pico

C. de la Cañada

C. d

e la

Amist

ad

C. del Puerto de Pajares

C. de los Cercados

C

. del O

este

C. de

las 4

Peña

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C. d

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s Pe

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C. de la

Suer

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C. del Cisne

Av. del G

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del Gavilán

C. de los Enebros

C. de la Perdiz

C. d

e M

ilano

C. del Esculto

r Cruz

Solí

s

C. de la

Cañada

C. de Santillana del Lago

C. del Puente

C. de la Atalaya

C. del Ruiseñor

C. del Canario

C. del Rincón de Aragón

C. de Elvirica

Paseo de los Rincones

C. de

l Jilg

uero

C. de la Codorniz

C. d

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s Go

lond

rinas C. de la Palom

a

C. del Águila

C. d

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Cig

ueña

C. de Menéndez Pidal

C. de Severo Ochoa

C. de la Almena

C. de la Tórtola

C. de Zuloaga

C. Torres Quevedo

C. del Rincón de la Pedriza

C. de Juan de la Cierva

C. de Isaac Peral

C. de Julio Romero

C. de Tiziano

C. de Goya

C. d

e Pa

blo Picasso

C. de Vázquez Díaz

C. del Pintor Rosales

C. de Sorolla

C. del Tulipán

C. de las AzucenasC. del Jazm

ín

C. del Clavel

Aven

ida

de la

Ped

riza

C. d

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s Am

apol

as

C. de las Gardenias

C. de las Camelias

C. del Clavel

C. de las Rosas

C. del Pensamiento

C. de las LilasC. del Lirio

C. de las Margaritas

C. de la Virgen de la Vega

C. de

la Vi

rgen

del

Pila

r

C. de

los M

ontañeros

Av. de la Pedriza

C. de la Nava C. d

el A

lpin

ista

C. de los Montañeros

C. de los Montañeros

C. de los Geranios

C. de las Rosas

C. de las Flores

C. de las Flores

C. de Navarealejo

C. de la Virg

en de la P

eña

C. d

e la

Virg

en d

e los Peligros

C. de la Virgen del Puerto

C. de la Virgen de los Peligros

C. del Tranco

Cam

ino

de la

Peñ

a Sa

cra

C. de la Virgen

de África

Camino del Boalo

C. de

l Bida

soa

C. de Fortuny

M-608

C. de la Gaviota


C. Del Duque

C. Real

M-608

M-608

Rotonda del Montañero

C. del Pato

a M

adrid

a Cerceda

C. Gorrión

C. Cuco

C. Rincón de Navarra

C. Rincónde RiojaC. de los Balcones

C. Rincón de Galicia

C. Rincón de

AsturiasC. del Rincón

de Cantabria

C. Rincón de Castilla

Paseo de los

Rincones

C. de Ramón y Cajal

C. Zurbarán

C. Violetas

C. E

scala

da

C. de la Madreselva

Plz. delPueblo

Plz. delPostiguillo

C. C

añad

a

Camino de Colmenar Viejo

C. Benjamín Palencia

C. C

asa

Gran

de

C. d

el C

az

C. de la Fábrica

C. de Joan Miró

Kermés

C. Labrador

C. de Miguel Ángel

C. del Norte

C. del Parque

C. de

la Pa

z

Tr. de las Peñas

C. de los Pradillos

C. Puerto del Escudo

C. P.

Leo

nes

C. P. de Navacerrada

C. P. Pasajes

Plz. delRaso

R. d

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naria

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R. Baleares

R. Extremadura

R. de Murcia

C.Romeral

Sierra

C. Virgen de la Roca

V. del Rocío

Ermita de la Peña Sacra

Molino del Cura

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A Castillo Viejo

Castillo de los Mendoza

Fuente de las Ermitas

Parque laHora Joven

CENTRO SALUD

Ntra. Señorade las Nieves

Club de Pesca

Club Hípico

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PuenteMedieval

Coto de pesca

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Bridge “Cañada Real” The Old Bridge

Its origins date back to the foundation of the village,

although its present form has a more modern aspect,

due to the various reconstruction and repair works that

took place during the course of the 16th, 17th and 18th

century. Its construction is attributed to Juan de Her-

rera and to Juan de Bautista de Toledo. It is made of

a masonry of clay and stone, consists of one arch and

is perfectly adapted to the landscape. The relevance of

this bridge is based on the fact that is was a prescribed

track of the Cañada Real Segoviana, which was used

by the Mesta (guild of cattle owners) to move the cattle

through Spain. It constituted a considerable income for

the village that collected a tax –el Pontazgo– for the

passage of merchandise and cattle.

Fountain “Las Ermitas”It consists of a fountain with a watering place, a distri-

bution compartment and various canals (first half of the

16th century). The fountain is a construction of monolith

blocks of granite stone, topped by a pediment decorated

on the south side with a escutcheon related with the

wedding promises of Don Iñigo Lopez de Mendoza y

Doña Maria de Luna. It served as a drinking or watering

place for the cattle when passing through the Cañada

Real. The distribution compartment (of a cubic structure)

is made of granite locked stone mortar. It collects the

water through both the canals and distributes and leads

it to the fountain through a third canal located on the

south side, where a pipe provides drinking water for

human consumption.

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Parish church “Nuestra Señora de las Nieves”According to existing information it appears that it was

founded in the beginning of the 14th century, under the

protection of the first Marqués de Santillana.

Notwithstanding, at the end of the 15th or in the begin-

ning of the 16th century, it was rebuilt in the way that

the arcade was altered by moving it from the north to

the south side.

Its architectural style is not clearly defined, due to

the substantial modifications that took place, through

which the Romanesque and Gothic building style

were mixed without forming a unity as a whole. It

concerns a church with three naves, separated by

arches on columns made of stone. The central nave

of Romanesque style, is preceded by the presbytery

in a pentagonal form.

The church tower counts three main parts, separated in

between by means of imposts. Its reconstruction works

were carried out in the beginning of the 16th century.

The construction of the sacristy is original and is covered

with cross Gothic tiercerons.

As far as the arcade concerns, situated on the south

side of the church, its construction dates back to

the middle of the 16th century and its building style is

renaissance with little decoration, consisting of eight

depressed arches and a half-pointed one.

Both the choir and the altarpiece disappeared, the

columns of which can still be found in the church’s

garden, together with some Basque grave stones,

stemming from the 12th century.

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Hermitage “Nuestra Señora de la Peña Sacra”As it can be concluded from its own name, the hermit-

age is situated on top of the Peña Sacra (Sacred Stone),

from where you have a splendid view of La Pedriza. The

construction dates back to the 16th century to which after-

wards additional units were attached in the 17th century.

The Virgen of the Peña Sacra is a modern copy of the

19th century statue that disappeared, with the exception

of the Child, which is still original. Various documents in

writing that origin from before exist in which the Peña

Sacra is related to druid cults, where Celtic priests were

celebrating their rites in the woods during the millennium

before Christ.

It is not completely known in which time started the cult to

the Virgen of the Peña Sacra, due to the difficulties to find

documents before the 16th century. Nowadays, a strong

devotion still exists for this Virgen, Patron of the village.

In 1769 when the Virgen was brought in procession to

the parish church in the village during the celebration

of its feast, the candles that surrounded the Virgen set

the church on fire, where only the sacristy was saved,

leaving the church without its tower, roof and sacred

statues. The Virgen itself was also destroyed by the fire.

Likewise, Bernaldo de Quirós tells us by narrating the

events that the inn-keeper of Manzanares described to

him at that time, that the hermitage was attacked by

bandits that occupied the region, being courageously

defended by the Guardesa of the Peña Sacra.

Where to sleepCamping El Ortigal Calle Montañero, 19 91 853 01 20Casa Rural La Escala Calle Rincón Canarias, 4 600 450 741Hoja de Roble Mirador La Maliciosa Avda. Pedriza, 60 91 852 70 65Hotel Parque Real Calle Padre Damián, 4 91 853 99 12Hotel Rural La Pedriza Calle Urumea, 8 91 852 89 00Pensión El Yelmo Avda. de la Pedriza, 69 91 853 06 55

Where to eatBar Casa de León Calle de los Frailes, 6 91 853 08 85Bar El Chanquete Calle Panaderos, 16 91 853 94 82Bar El Fogón de Ana Calle del Marqués de Santillana, 3 91 853 93 89Bar El Paraíso Calle Panaderos, 27 665 704 394Bar El Picadero Avda. de la Paz, s/n 608 314 269Bar El Pulpo de la Sierra Calle de la Cañada, 32 91 852 72 48Bar La Montería Calle Real, 8 659 896 290Bar La Taurina Plaza del Pueblo, 7 91 853 93 89Bar Maliciosa Avda. de la Pedriza, 58 91 852 70 65Bar Peces Avda. de Madrid, 16 91 853 07 23Bar Pedriza City Plaza del Raso, 7 91 852 76 99Bar Comidas El Molino Calle Camino de la Peña Sacra, 26 91 853 98 46Bodega La Cañada Calle de la Cañada, 19 91 855 80 21Cafetería Manín Plaza del Pueblo, 1 91 853 94 89Cervecería Cañada 49 Calle de la Cañada, 37 91 853 94 88Churrería La Rosca Calle de Correos, 4 91 855 87 99Discoteca 13-58 Avda. de la Paz, s/n 91 853 04 87Heladería La Jijonenca Plaza del Pueblo, 14 91 853 90 71Kiosco/Terraza La Hora Joven Avda. de la Pedriza, s/n 610 811 867Kiosco/Terraza La Huerta Calle Colmenar, 17 91 853 94 84Pizzería Pizzareal Calle de la Cañada, 41-43 91 853 97 48Restaurante Asador de Carmen Calle Real, 5 91 852 85 01Restaurante Casa Goyo Plaza del Sagrado Corazón, 2 91 853 94 84Restaurante Casa Julián Avda. de la Pedriza, 128 91 853 04 86Restaurante Casa Parra Calle Panaderos, 15 91 853 94 60Restaurante Charca Verde Plaza del Raso, 9 91 853 03 57Restaurante El Yelmo Avda. de la Pedriza, 69 91 853 06 55Restaurante La Cocina de mi Suegra Calle de la Cañada de Toros, 27 91 855 88 06Restaurante La Taurina Plaza del Pueblo, 8 91 853 93 89Restaurante Parque Real Calle del Padre Damián, 4 91 853 99 12Restaurante Rincón del Alba Calle de la Paloma, 2 91 853 91 11Restaurante/Cafetería La Jara de La Pedriza Calle Panaderos, 6 91 853 93 38

Tourist Guide

Consejería de Cultura y TurismoDirección General de Turismo902 100 [email protected]

Ayuntamiento de Manzanares El RealConcejalía de Turismo91 853 00 [email protected]

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