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Municipality in Castile-La Mancha, Spain
Cañete
Municipality
Coat of arms of CañeteCoat of arms
Cañete is located in SpainCañeteCañeteLocation in Spain
Coordinates: 40°03′N 1°39′W / 40.050°N 1.650°W / 40.050; -1.650
Country Spain
Autonomous community Castile-La Mancha
ProvinceCuenca
ComarcaSerrania de Cuenca
Government
 • MayorAntonio Asensio Gómez (PSOE)
Area
 • Total87.80 km (33.90 sq mi)
Elevation1,105 m (3,625 ft)
Population
 • Total769
 • Density8.8/km (23/sq mi)
DemonymCañeteros
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code16300

Cañete (Spanish: [kaˈɲete] ) is a municipality in the Cuenca Province, Castile-La Mancha, Spain.

It is home to a Moorish-origin castle, and of a line of walls with a gate from the same age.

It is the birthplace of Álvaro de Luna and the origin of the Sephardic Jewish family Canetti (the most famous member of which is Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Elias Canetti); Canetti is a transformation of Cañete, from a time when the family lived in Italy. It is also the birthplace of Manuel Polo y Peyrolón, an ultraconservative philosopher and scholar of clear anti-semitic penchant.

Statue of Álvaro de Luna in Cañete

References

  1. Municipal Register of Spain 2018. National Statistics Institute.


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