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What to see and do in Casas de Ves

What to see and do in Casas de Ves (La Manchuela, Albacete): 6 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 2 Monuments · 1 Activities · 1 Curiosities · 1 Historical milestones

When to go to Casas de Ves: festival calendar

May: Festivities of Santa Quiteria de Casas de Ves (May 22)

How far each place is from the centre of Casas de Ves

Church of Santa Quiteria de Casas de Ves 1.9 km

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What to see and do in Casas de Ves

Casas de Ves
Village
Casas de Ves is a municipality in the comarca of La Manchuela, in the province of Albacete, with 519 inhabitants, spread between the canyons of the Júcar and Cabriel rivers at 707 metres of altitude, and comprising the hamlets of Perichán and Tranco del Lobo. It preserves the church of Santa Quiteria, built in the 16th century with features of Romanesque architecture and declared Bien de Interés Cultural (Spain's highest level of heritage protection) in 1995, and a town hall on the Plaza Mayor, whose construction was authorised by Charles III by royal charter in 1775 and completed in 1803. Its festivals follow one another throughout the year: from Maundy Thursday to the following Wednesday in honour of the Virgen de la Encarnación, on 15 May San Isidro, on 22 May Santa Quiteria, the patron saint, on 13 June San Antonio, the patron saint, and on 14 August the Virgen de Agosto.
Town Hall of Casas de Ves
Monument
A town hall on the Plaza Mayor whose construction was authorised by a royal decree of Carlos III in 1775 and completed in 1803.
Church of Santa Quiteria de Casas de Ves
Monument
The church of Santa Quiteria, near the plaza Mayor of Casas de Ves, is a 16th-century building in simple Romanesque architecture, with thick rubble-masonry walls reinforced at the corners and a wooden roof. Its square tower, built of three tiers of ashlar stone, culminates in a belfry topped with a cornice of spherical and pyramidal finials and gargoyles. In 1748 the current Latin-cross transept was added, with a nave crowned by an octagonal lantern tower and a raised dome, and a spacious presbytery. The entrance, on the southeast façade, opens between two buttresses beneath a vaulted atrium and a stone pediment in relief. The church, declared a Bien de Interés Cultural (Spain's highest level of heritage protection) on 31 July 1995, also has four chapels attached to its side façades; the image of the saint appears on the municipal coat of arms.
Festivities of Santa Quiteria de Casas de Ves
Activity
The festivities of Santa Quiteria de Casas de Ves are held on 22 May in honour of the municipality's patron saint, one of the key dates in the local festive calendar alongside that of San Antonio on 13 June. The church dedicated to Santa Quiteria, of Romanesque origin, was built in the 16th century.
Between the Júcar and the Cabriel
Curiosity
The municipal district of Casas de Ves stretches between the canyons of the Júcar and Cabriel rivers at 707 metres above sea level, with a density of barely four inhabitants per square kilometre.
Casas de Ves, villa desde 1810
Historical milestone
Born as a hamlet of Villa de Ves, it took in the residence of the chief magistrate in 1743 and began to appear as a villa in public documents; in 1810 it was officially recognized as such, reversing the weight between the mother town and its former hamlet.