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What to see and do in Fuente-Álamo

What to see and do in Fuente-Álamo (Campos de Hellín, Albacete): 11 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 1 Monuments · 3 Nature · 2 Activities · 2 Curiosities · 1 Historical milestones · 1 Food and drink

When to go to Fuente-Álamo: festival calendar

August: Gazpacho Day (August 14)
October: Patron saint festivities of Fuente-Álamo (Del 8 al 12 de octubre)

How far each place is from the centre of Fuente-Álamo

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What to see and do in Fuente-Álamo

Fuente-Álamo
Village
Fuente-Álamo is a municipality in the comarca of Campos de Hellín, in the province of Albacete, with 2,422 inhabitants (INE 2025), 61 km from the provincial capital. Its name comes, according to tradition, from a spring next to a large poplar tree now gone; around 1265, when the territory belonged to Alpera, it was called Fuentes del Álamo. It belonged to the Taifa of Murcia until the Treaty of Alcaraz of 1243, and in 1269 became a hamlet of Chinchilla de Monte-Aragón within the señorío of Villena; it did not obtain the title of villa (town) until 1833. Its economy rests on grapes and olives, with wines from the Cooperativa Vitivinícola San Dionisio under the Denominación de Origen Jumilla. Neolithic materials have been documented in its territory at Las Colleras and El Mainetón.
Church of San Dionisio Areopagita
Monument
Parish church of Fuente-Álamo (Albacete) built in the 18th century in neoclassical style to plans by the architect Lorenzo Alonso Franco, and consecrated in 1798. It is the main monument of the municipality. It has a single nave covered by a barrel vault, recessed chapels between pilasters with Ionic capitals, and an over-semicircular apse closed by a dome, with a rectangular bell tower. The plain façade is adorned with angels holding the crosier, the palm, the book and the mitre of San Dionisio; the dome was painted in 1954 by Manuel Muñoz Barberán with an Assumption of Mary, and the apse wall retains two grisaille medallions depicting the Annunciation and the Visitation.
Archaeological site of el Cerro Fortaleza
Nature
An archaeological site with Neolithic, Celtiberian and Roman remains that documents a long occupation of the area. It commands the surroundings of the present-day built-up area.
Archaeological site of El Mainetón
Nature
A spot with traces of Neolithic settlement in the municipal district of Fuente-Álamo. Together with Las Colleras, it attests to the antiquity of human settlement in the area.
Las Colleras
Nature
A rise with singular geological formations in the municipal district of Fuente-Álamo, where Neolithic material has been documented. It is a good viewpoint over the fields of vines and olives.
Patron saint festivities of Fuente-Álamo
Activity
Main festivals of Fuente-Álamo (Campos de Hellín, Albacete) in honour of San Dionisio Areopagita, held from 8 to 12 October. They begin with the symbolic treading of the grapes in wooden vats, the resulting must being offered to the patron saint, followed by a display of regional dances, as well as processions, verbenas and other popular events.
Gazpacho Day
Activity
Fuente-Álamo's Gazpacho Day, also known as the Dance of the Gazpachos, is held every 14 August around a popular gazpachada considered the largest in the province of Albacete. The gathering brings together residents and visitors for the tasting of gazpachos manchegos, a traditional dish of the Campos de Hellín district.
From hamlet of Chinchilla to town
Curiosity
Documented around 1265 as a dependency of Alpera, Fuente-Álamo was later a village of Chinchilla de Monte-Aragón within the lordship of Villena. It did not obtain the title of villa until 1833, with the creation of the province of Albacete.
The wine of the Cooperativa San Dionisio
Curiosity
The Cooperativa Vitivinícola San Dionisio makes the municipality's wines under the DO Jumilla. Grapes and olives are the basis of the local economy.
Fuente-Álamo se desliga de Chinchilla
Historical milestone
The place of las Fuentes del Álamo, a hamlet of Chinchilla since the thirteenth century within the lordship of Villena, separated in 1788 from its ecclesiastical jurisdiction, a decisive step towards the full municipal autonomy attained in the following century.
La monastrell de la Denominación de Origen Jumilla
Food and drink
Six municipalities of Albacete, among them Fuente-Álamo, have formed part since 1966 of the Jumilla denomination of origin, where the monastrell grape grown without irrigation gives reds of deep color, ripe fruit and considerable structure.