Manzanares, Ciudad Real
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Manzanares, Ciudad Real is a municipality
in Ciudad Real
, Castile-La Mancha
, Spain
. It has a population of 19,186 (2009). It is located near the Autovía A-4
(Autovia del Sur).
The Iglesia de la Asunción, the town's main church is dedicated to the Assumption of Mary
.
The village of Llanos del Caudillo
, established by the Instituto Nacional de Colonización
in the 1950s and formarly depending from Manzanares, became a municipality in its own right in the 1990s.
Municipality
A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...
in Ciudad Real
Ciudad Real
Ciudad Real is a city in Castile-La Mancha, Spain, with a population of c. 74,000. It is the capital of the province of Ciudad Real. It has a stop on the AVE high-speed rail line and has begun to grow as a long-distance commuter suburb of Madrid, located 115 miles to the north. A high capacity...
, Castile-La Mancha
Castile-La Mancha
Castile-La Mancha is an autonomous community of Spain. Castile-La Mancha is bordered by Castile and León, Madrid, Aragon, Valencia, Murcia, Andalusia, and Extremadura. It is one of the most sparsely populated of Spain's autonomous communities...
, Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
. It has a population of 19,186 (2009). It is located near the Autovía A-4
Autovía A-4
The Autovía A-4 or Autopista AP-4 is a Spanish autovía and autopista route which starts in Madrid and ends in Cádiz....
(Autovia del Sur).
The Iglesia de la Asunción, the town's main church is dedicated to the Assumption of Mary
Assumption of Mary
According to the belief of Christians of the Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy, and parts of the Anglican Communion and Continuing Anglicanism, the Assumption of Mary was the bodily taking up of the Virgin Mary into Heaven at the end of her life...
.
The village of Llanos del Caudillo
Llanos del Caudillo
Llanos del Caudillo is a municipality in Ciudad Real, Castile-La Mancha, Spain. It has a population of 692.- History :Llanos del Caudillo was founded by colonist families in the 1950s, subsidized by the Instituto Nacional de Colonización of the Spanish government...
, established by the Instituto Nacional de Colonización
Instituto Nacional de Colonización
The Instituto Nacional de Colonización y Desarrollo Rural, , was the administrative entity that was established by the Spanish Dictatorship in October 1939, shortly after the end of the Spanish Civil War, in order to repopulate certain areas of Spain...
in the 1950s and formarly depending from Manzanares, became a municipality in its own right in the 1990s.