About Castilla La Mancha

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A land in the heart of the Iberian Peninsula, that is transformed throughout the length its five provinces: Albacete, Ciudad Real, Cuenca, Guadalajara and Toledo, to offer a route through its immense cultural heritage, its spectacular nature sites, its delicious gastronomy, its ancient popular festivities and its delicate arts and crafts

Castilla-La Mancha offers a great variety of destinations, exceptional exhibits of artistic and monumental heritage such as: Alcaraz y Chinchilla in Albacete; Villanueva de los Infantes and Almagro, in Ciudad Real; Belmonte in Cuenca; Molina de Aragón, Atienza y Sigüenza in Guadalajara or Consuegra and Oropesa in Toledo. And the villages depicted in Don Quixote are also not to be forgotten.

Eating out in Castilla-La Mancha involves a high level of satisfaction. Cuisine from Castilla-La Mancha is based on abundant and good game and natural products such as vegetables, fruit and pulses, that may be savoured at over two thousand five hundred restaurants throughout the region.

Forests, grazing grounds, canyons, marshlands, ravines, plains. A wide variety of landscapes are encompassed in two National Parks: Cabañeros (Ciudad Real and Toledo), and Tablas de Daimiel (Ciudad Real), five Nature Reserves: Alto Tajo (Guadalajara and Cuenca), Hayedo de Tejera Negra (Guadalajara), los Calares del Río Mundo (Albacete), Barranco del Río Dulce (Guadalajara) and Lagunas de Ruidera (Ciudad Real and Albacete), thirteen Strict Nature Reserves and six Micro-reserves.

Castilla-La Mancha, with the largest vineyards in the world, offers you the chance to explore its wine zones, visit vineyards and wine-cellars, identify the varieties and taste wine while you enjoy the region's gastronomy specialties and get to know its artistic wealth.

There are many festivities of interest for tourism that take place in Castilla-La Mancha. Most of them are essentially religious festivities, others can be sourced to the remote pagan traditions of the Iberian peoples. Some must-sees are: The Holy Week and the Religious Music Week in Cuenca, with the sound of drums rolling in the streets; and the Corpus Christi in Toledo, which is very solemn. Other festivities of National Interest for Tourism are the Albacete Fair, with ten days of festivities and cheerfulness in the celebrations to honour its patron, the Virgen de los Llanos, the Hellín Tamborrada and Tobarra Drum Festivals, the Caballada de Atienza and the Festival Medieval de Hita [Medieval Festival in Hita].

Congresses and meetings find the relevant setting in Castilla-La Mancha, which offers fair facilities and modern congress halls, easily-accessible and comfortable monumental cities, that make any event special, and natural and landscape environs to carry out extra activities.