La Roda sale del marquesado de Villena Historical milestone · La Roda, La Mancha del Júcar-Centro, Albacete Image of La Roda, not of the place itself. After the war that set the Catholic Monarchs against don Diego López Pacheco, La Roda broke away in 1476 from the marquisate of Villena and came under royal jurisdiction, a change that allowed it to raise in the following century its great Renaissance church. 1476 Photo: Philmarin (CC BY-SA 4.0) What to see and do in La Roda