Cañete, Cuenca

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Cañete
File:20070414 - Cañete - Vista del casco urbano desde el castillo.jpg
Location in Spain
Coordinates: 40°03′N 1°39′W / 40.050°N 1.650°W / 40.050; -1.650
CountryFile:Flag of Spain.svg Spain
Autonomous communityFile:Bandera Castilla-La Mancha.svg Castile-La Mancha
ProvinceCuenca
ComarcaSerrania de Cuenca
Government
 • MayorAntonio Asensio Gómez (PSOE)
Area
 • Total
87.80 km2 (33.90 sq mi)
Elevation
1,105 m (3,625 ft)
Population
 ()[1]
DemonymCañeteros
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code
16300

Cañete (Spanish: [kaˈɲete] Audio file "Pronunciation of Cañete in Spanish.ogg" not found) 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.

File:20070414 - Estatua de don Álvaro de Luna.jpg
Statue of Álvaro de Luna in Cañete

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