Cogolludo
This town is fitted between the mountains, the plains and the plateau (Sierra, Campiña and Alcarria) in the province of Guadalajara, on the side of a steep slope, on the eastern side of a hill overlooking the Henares valley. Its name is due to the coned lettuce-hearted shape of its oldest houses, and the town comprises the villages of Aleas, Beleña de Sorbe, Torrebeleña and Veguilla.
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Location
40km from Guadalajara and at an altitude of 893m. Connected via local roads.
- Tourist information
- Town Hall / Tourism Office
Plaza Mayor, 1
Phone: (949 855 001 )
Mobile: (626 187 799)
Website: www.cogolludo.es
- How to get there
- Road transport
It is a monumental town featuring a sinewy historical quarter made up of many narrow, steep streets that flock around the small hill on which lay the ancient castle, from which the walls that completely surrounded the town spanned out.
- Special trips in Cogolludo
- • Palace of the Dukes of Medinaceli
(15th century. Historical and Artistic Monument)
• Plaza Mayor (overlooking porticos) and Fountain
'La Nevera’ (medieval warehouse for keeping frozen snow)
• Church of Santa María (16th century)
painting by José de Ribera inside)
• Church of San Pedro (16th century)
• Ruins of the Monastery of San Antonio
• Old Convent del Carmen (façade)
• Romanesque Church of Beleña
• Ruins of the Castle
• Hermitages of San Antón, Soledad, San Isidro, Virgen del Val and San Miguel
Natural Sights:
• 'La Zarzilla Picnic Grounds’
(on the road to Hiendelaencina. Stone tables and benches, barbecue and fountain)
• Archaeological Deposit of 'Lomo’
• Arab bridge over the Sorbe River
(Beleña de Sorbe)
• Pine Forest (300 hectares)
• Aliendre Riverside
Castilla-La Mancha Map: places of interest
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Tourism Information Office
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Talavera de la Reina Tourist Information Office
Palenque, 2
Talavera de la Reina
(Toledo)
Tel. 925 826 322
Fax 925 806 614
