Starting in Toledo and arrival in Villafranca de los Caballeros
The crossing points; Esteban Miguel, Puebla De Almoradiel, Quintanar De La Orden, De Villa and Don Fadrique Villacañas.

A trip around the town, where advised to travel on any day and month of the year.
The characteristics of the journey I have selected, art, and holiday family.
I recommend on the mobility of a vehicle car-tourism.

General information:
We’ll give you a glimpse as is customary in our blog Villa de Ayora introduction of data for those tourists who go for the first time.

The route through the region of La Mancha Toledana us, throughout the year, villages with typical architecture and industrial targets the lifestyle of its residents.
Villacañas Loop, La Villa de Don Fabrique, La Puebla de Almoradiel, the Order of Quintanar, Miguel Esteban y Villafranca de los Caballeros, invites us to discover cave houses to windmills, as well as ornithological reserves or beautiful lagoons. All villages have churches where they worship and practice, one of the Villacañas, a museum of religious art popular. However, the route starts in the city of Toledo, a World Heritage Site.

The city has been witness to the Christian, Jewish and Arabic. And walled medieval capital of the province is forged between narrow streets. Toledo has a magnificent heritage, which are its Gothic cathedral and the monastery of San Juan de los Reyes. The Mosque of Cristo de la Luz, the Church of Santiago del Arrabal, the chapel of Cristo de la Vega, the Baths of Cava or bridge of Alcantara is some examples from a long list of assets. It is a city of intense cultural activity that has traditionally worked in the art of swords and is one of the major tourist destinations in the national scene.

Villacañas values ethnologic:
Traveler Villacañas discovers cave-houses and religious folk art, which gives ethnographic significance to the visit of this town Toledan.

Villacañas underground dwellings are the main tourist attraction and ethnological municipality. These silos excavated and turned into homes where the light enters the ventilation shafts in the roof open. More information on these buildings is typically found in the Ethnographic Museum of the Silo, in the locality.

This town, which combines agriculture and industry, was the way of transhumant cattle in the region of La Mancha. It has a hall of the seventeenth century and a church of the Assumption, which witnessed the transition from Gothic to Renaissance. The liturgical heritage is enhanced by multiple shrines like Santa Ana or San Sebastian.

Another attraction is that of Villacañas offers the traveler to discover the art of popular religion in Spain. «La Casa de la Tia Sandal» has become one of the most important museums in this regard. The sculptures, paintings and reliefs that drafted the santeros have today, a clear value ethnologic.

La Villa de Don Fabrique, wineries and alcohol
Chimneys and turrets looming in the sky a town tradition and Alcohol winemaker.

Leaving Villacañas, the route continues up to the town of La Villa de Don Fabrique, whose name recalls that the place was once a manor. Today, the main characteristic of this population is the core architecture and landscape caused by industry instead. For this reason, La Villa de Fabrique wineries and alcohol has that look of brick chimneys and turrets.

La Villa de Don Fabrique is located within the region of La Mancha, like our previous destination. In his city include the church of Our Lady of the Assumption and the Casa de la Tercia, dating from the fifteenth century. It’s a place that, on the other hand, invited to taste the cuisine of La Mancha and in particular, of Toledo.

La Puebla de Almoradiel, hydraulic mills
Set in the region of La Mancha, La Puebla de Almoradiel has countless shrines and several hydraulic mills.

The discovery of the town of La Puebla de Almoradiel involves walking on foot through some of its most emblematic streets. Such is the case of road dedicated to the leader Pablo Iglesias or street Calvary. It is said that La Puebla de Almoradiel was an ancient Celtic fortress. Your City Council is one of the main attractions and museums that dot the hydraulic end.

From the religious point of view, it is recommended to the traveler who goes to the hermitage of La Puebla de Almoradiel, Santa Ana, Christ, and finally, the Virgin of Egido.

Quintanar of the Order, salpicado de ermitas
Liturgical constructions are most relevant characteristic of a municipality that is located in a beautiful shrine to Our Lady of Mercy.

The value of the stock of Quintanar of the Order is based on the religious buildings of the place. Which they are invited to visit this town in the region of La Mancha. Several holy shrines to give ownership. La Virgen de la Piedad, San Antón and San Sebastián are revered in their respective shrines of the Order of Quintanar.

It should be emphasized within the locality of the existence of the shrine of Our Lady of Mercy, and the Casa de Piedra, must-visit spots before continuing the route by land to Miguel Esteban Toledo.

Miguel Esteban, ornithological reserve
A few kilometers from Miguel Esteban is an important ornithological reserve, while on the outskirts of the village you can admire an old windmill.

While our route to discover the industrial and civil architecture of the region of La Mancha Toledana, we cannot overlook the reach Miguel Esteban, the existence of an exceptional ornithological reserve. Under the name The Charcones, this reserve is an ideal habitat for waterfowl and a major attraction of this town of vineyards and cereals.

The old houses of Miguel Esteban are based on the factory roof tapial and Arabs. We recommend walking down the street from Ramon y Cajal, in addition to Garden Street. In the town there is a church and a hermitage dedicated to San Andres and San Isidro, respectively, while the outskirt survives a windmill. It is a building typical of industrial architecture of the peoples of the region mentioned above.

Villafranca de los Caballeros, a land of lakes
Laguna Grande and Laguna Chica motor are in a tourist town punctuated by shrines.

Our final destination brings us to Villafranca de los Caballeros, people in ancient times he saw the tax was abolished in order to boost their recruitment. This has called Villa-franca, ie free of this financial burden.

Without a doubt, are the gaps in Villafranca de los Caballeros behind the visit of the town. Both the Big Girl is protected by the Community Board. Next to the lagoons, it is advisable to discover some of the remains Iberians kept in the village and visit their shrines, witness the cult of the locals.

The hermitage of San Antón, San Blas, San Isidro, San Sebastian and the Santo Cristo de Santa Ana give name to these liturgical centers, whose construction dates from the sixteenth century to the XX.