San Clemente

Location

San Clemente is a village belonging to the Autonomous Region of Castilla-La Mancha. To be more specific, it located in the southwest of the province of Cuenca

Tourist information

Oficina de Turismo de San Clemente (San Clemente Tourism Office)
Marqués, 9
Phone: 969 300 160 / 003 – 661 814 037
Website: www.sanclemente.nom.es

How to get there

Road transport

Visiting San Clemente is like travelling in time to the 16th and 17th Centuries, through a heritage awarded the cultural interest title. The village's landscape is spotted with houses with coats of arms with masonry on their façades. It also has a beautiful main square with a Renaissance old public granary, a council building from the 15th Century with an interesting local history library and several convents.
An important festivity taking place in this municipality is the: Medieval Market: On June 12, 2000, the Virgin of Rus was awarded the title of Eternal and Honorary Mayoress of San Clemente. On the same date, the festivity of Rus was declared a Regional Interest Festivity and the concession granted by the Catholic Monarchs, Isabella and Fernando, for a tax-free market was recovered. The market is located nearby the Old Tower and it is held on Pentecost Saturdays and Sundays.

Special trips in San Clemente

-The Old Tower: built before 1445, founded by Hernán González del Castillo, great-grandson of Clemente Pérez de Rus, has been used since 1998 as a Farming Ethnographic Museum, and popular arts and crafts can be viewed here. The 15th-Century Santiago Apóstol Church, which has an alabaster cross of 16th-Century florid-style gothic in a lateral chapel.