Guadalajara

Guadalajara stands on the Henares northeast of Madrid, a city closely associated with the powerful Mendoza family. Their Palace of the Infantado, with its richly worked façade and courtyard, displayed the wealth and ambition of the dukes who made Guadalajara a centre of noble patronage. In the eighteenth century the Crown founded a royal cloth factory here. Its workshops formed part of a wider network of royal textile production, including the establishment at nearby Brihuega.