Manzanares el Real Castle
| Manzanares el Real Castle | |
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 Manzanares el Real Castle |
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| Alternative name (s): | Castillo nuevo de Manzanares el Real |
| Creation time : | 13th century |
| Conservation status: | received or received substantial parts |
| Standing position : | Nobles |
| Place: | Manzanares el Real |
| Geographical location | 40 ° 43 '38 " N , 3 ° 51' 44" W |
The New Castle of Manzanares el Real is located in the Spanish municipality of Manzanares el Real about 32 kilometers north of Madrid at the foot of the hills of the Sierra de Guadarrama.
history
The oldest castle in this place is the 13th century guaranteed. It had three corner towers in a wall wreath and a massive residential tower . Its most famous resident was the writer Íñigo López de Mendoza , Marqués de Santillana, who had received the castle as a fief from King John II .
In 1475, Mendoza's son, the first Duke of El Infantado , built a new castle and gave the complex its current layout. The outer wall wreath has semicircular bastions and is relatively low. Three corner towers with machicolations and the massive keep formed the core castle. In 1480, the second Duke of Infantado had the isabelino-mudejar gallery built , making it one of the most beautiful examples of flamboyant . The builder was Juan Güas , who also designed the false machicolation of the complex and the octagonal tower on the actual donjon .
On the towers on the west side and on the donjon there are towers with a smaller diameter. They are decorated all around with stone bosses and balls. These elaborate decorations possibly served the purpose of hiding the defensive strength of the building and thus deceiving representatives of the Spanish kings, who disapproved of new castles and often captured their owners.
The castle served to protect the ducal possessions. It stood in a prominent place on the border between Castile , the Kingdom of León and today's Castile-La Mancha . If you wanted to conquer Madrid from the north, you had to pass the massive castle. The imposing appearance of the facility alone should intimidate enemies in advance.
Trivia
Larger sections of the film The Return of the Musketeers were filmed in the castle, the scenes with the captivity of the Duke of Beaufort and the last 20 minutes before the triumphal parade.
literature
- Chris Gravett: Atlas of Castles. The most beautiful castles and palaces . Tosa, Vienna 2001, pp. 110–111, ISBN 3-85492-470-4 .
