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What to see and do in Fuensanta

What to see and do in Fuensanta (La Mancha del Júcar-Centro, Albacete): 11 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 4 Monuments · 2 Activities · 1 Curiosities · 2 Historical milestones · 1 Food and drink

When to go to Fuensanta: festival calendar

May: Festivities of San Gregorio Nacianceno (May 9)
September: Fair of la Virgen de los Remedios (September 8)

How far each place is from the centre of Fuensanta

Shrine of Nuestra Señora de los Remedios de Fuensanta 100 m

Towns near Fuensanta

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What to see and do in Fuensanta

Fuensanta
Village
Municipality of the comarca of La Mancha del Júcar-Centro, in the province of Albacete, grown around the spring that tradition links to a Marian apparition of 1482 and the chapel raised then as a dependency of La Roda; the Trinitarians settled there in the sixteenth century and their former convent, today the shrine of Nuestra Señora de los Remedios, preserves the cloister and a Baroque camarín with the patronal images. It became independent from La Roda in 1672 after paying the king 337,500 maravedís.
Shrine of Nuestra Señora de los Remedios de Fuensanta
Monument
A former Trinitarian convent built on a hermitage erected after the Marian apparition of 1482, bought by the Trinitarian Order around 1561 to found a monastery here; the church, founded in 1558, has a rectangular plan covered with lunette vaults and a dome on pendentives over the crossing, decorated with medallions of polychrome plasterwork depicting Trinitarian saints. It preserves the cloister, from the 16th century, with a double gallery of round arches and lintels on columns, and a Baroque camarín with the patronal images of Fuensanta and La Roda. In the old orchards there is also a small chapel of great popular devotion, built over the spring where the apparition is said to have taken place; around it grew the hamlet that broke away from La Roda to become an independent town in 1671-1672.
Chapel of la Fuente de Fuensanta
Monument
The chapel of la Fuente, in Fuensanta (La Mancha del Júcar-Centro, Albacete), is a small building located in the old orchards of the convent, at the spot where tradition places the Marian apparition of 1482, beside a spring or source that became known as fuente santa (holy spring) and gave the village its name. It is an object of great devotion among the population. Around this religious episode grew the settlement, which went from a small hermitage to becoming an independent town in 1672.
Former Parish of San Gregorio Nacianceno
Monument
Former parish church of Fuensanta (Albacete), a 17th-century building that served as the town's church before worship was transferred to the sanctuary. The building is today a private property converted into a warehouse.
Arch of Calle Huertas
Monument
Arch on the calle Huertas, in Fuensanta (Albacete, La Mancha del Júcar-Centro). Local tradition considers it to date from the Arab period, although there is no proof to confirm this; in any case, it was rebuilt in 2004 with flat natural stone and sand-and-lime mortar.
The separation of Fuensanta
Curiosity
Fuensanta broke away from La Roda in 1672 after paying the king 337,500 maravedís. The settlement had grown with the devout who came to bathe in the holy spring.
Fair of la Virgen de los Remedios
Activity
Fair and main festivities of Fuensanta in honour of its patroness, the Virgen de los Remedios, venerated in the Trinitarian sanctuary and celebrated every 8 September. The sanctuary has its origin in a supposed Marian apparition of 1482, when a spring is said to have burst forth on the spot; the Trinitarians bought the hermitage around 1561 and built a monastery on it. The church, rectangular in plan and Baroque in style, is covered with lunette vaults and a dome with polychrome plaster reliefs of Trinitarian saints; in the old conventual orchard a chapel marking the site of the apparition is preserved. The municipality also celebrates, on 9 May, its patron san Gregorio Nacianceno, with a pilgrimage to La Roda and a cultural week from 9 to 15 August.
Festivities of San Gregorio Nacianceno
Activity
The Fiestas de San Gregorio Nacianceno are the patronal festival of Fuensanta (Albacete, comarca of La Mancha del Júcar-Centro), celebrated on 9 May. On the following Sunday the pilgrimage sets out that carries the image of the Virgen de los Remedios to La Roda, and three weeks later the return pilgrimage to Fuensanta takes place. The municipality also holds a cultural week from 9 to 15 August and, on 8 September, the fair of the Virgen de los Remedios.
La aparición mariana de 1482
Historical milestone
Tradition places in 1482 the apparition that gave rise to the spring and to the first hermitage, built then as a dependency of La Roda. Around that sacred spring the cluster of houses that today forms the village gradually grew.
La llegada de los trinitarios a Fuensanta
Historical milestone
Juan Carrasco donated houses and revenues to sustain the founding of a convent, and in 1561 the Trinitarians took over the hermitage of the spring to build their monastery, which attracted pilgrims and gave the place its definitive impetus.
Las migas de pastor con uvas
Food and drink
Stale bread moistened and crumbled, stirred in the pan with oil, garlic and paprika until it comes loose; they are served with pork rinds, longaniza and bunches of grapes, a sweet contrast that lightens them. They were the breakfast of the Manchegan shepherds.