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What to see and do in Pozuelo de Calatrava

What to see and do in Pozuelo de Calatrava (Campo de Calatrava, Ciudad Real): 7 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 3 Monuments · 1 Nature · 2 Activities

When to go to Pozuelo de Calatrava: festival calendar

May: Pilgrimage of Nuestra Señora de los Santos (Primeros fines de semana de mayo y de septiembre)
December: Night of the Bonfires of Pozuelo (December 7)

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What to see and do in Pozuelo de Calatrava

Pozuelo de Calatrava
Village
Municipality of the comarca of Campo de Calatrava, in the province of Ciudad Real, whose Baroque church of San Juan Bautista, of the seventeenth century, has been a Bien de Interés Cultural (Spain's highest level of heritage protection) since 1991, while of the original parish, destroyed by the Lisbon earthquake of 1755, the chapel of the Cristo de la Misericordia survives. Fourteen kilometres from the village stands the shrine of Nuestra Señora de los Santos, raised between the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century, with notable Mudéjar coffering and the goal of a double pilgrimage, and in the district rise the mineral-medicinal springs of the Baños de Fuensanta.
Church of San Juan Bautista de Pozuelo
Monument
The church of Saint John the Baptist, a 17th-century Baroque temple under whose dedication the building is known, is the main monument of Pozuelo de Calatrava, in the Campo de Calatrava district, with a single nave. It was declared a Bien de Interés Cultural (Spain's highest level of heritage protection), with the category of monument, on 8 October 1991, by a decree published that same month in the Diario Oficial de Castilla-La Mancha. The temple is described both in the Diccionario geográfico-estadístico-histórico by Pascual Madoz and in the Diccionario histórico geográfico de la provincia de Ciudad Real, by Inocente Hervás y Buendía, which attest to its antiquity within the municipality's religious complex.
Chapel of el Cristo de la Misericordia de Pozuelo
Monument
Remains of the original parish church of Pozuelo de Calatrava, destroyed by the 1755 Lisbon earthquake and preserved as a chapel. Small in size, 13.55 by 5.05 metres, it follows the hall-church typology, with a single nave and rectangular apse. It occupies the Alto del Polvillo, where the original settlement of the population was established, and its ashlar blocks were reused to build the new parish church of Saint John the Baptist.
Shrine of Nuestra Señora de los Santos
Monument
Sanctuary built at the end of the 15th century and the beginning of the 16th, with a notable Mudejar coffered ceiling, located fourteen kilometres from the village on a hill that housed a small fortress during the Reconquista. It holds a Baroque altarpiece with Solomonic columns. The main pilgrimage is held on the first weekend of September, and another on the first Sunday of May, commemorating the Virgin freeing the village from a cholera epidemic in 1884.
Baths of Fuensanta
Nature
The Baños de Fuensanta are a former spa of mineral-medicinal waters in the municipal district of Pozuelo de Calatrava, built on the orders of Infante Gabriel of Bourbon and Saxony, brother of Charles IV; the first studies on its waters were published in 1820. The spring emerges from a limestone rock at the centre of a pool built as a bath by order of the infante. At the end of the 19th century the waters were recommended for rheumatism, neurosis, neuralgia or menstrual disorders. The complex came to have an archive, a house for the doctor, a Guardia Civil post, a chapel, a telephone exchange, a tavern and a dance hall, and received around three thousand people during the summer season, with bullfights among its activities.
Pilgrimage of Nuestra Señora de los Santos
Activity
The Pilgrimage of Our Lady of the Saints is the double pilgrimage with which Pozuelo de Calatrava (Campo de Calatrava, Ciudad Real) honours its patroness, held on the first weekend of May and again in September. The sanctuary stands on a hill about 14 kilometres from the village, where there was once a small fort. During the procession, the pilgrims, dressed in traditional Manchego regional costume, stop before an almond tree where, according to tradition, the Virgin appeared, and offer her a floral tribute. The May pilgrimage commemorates the village's deliverance from a cholera epidemic; the September one, originally fixed on the 8th of that month, is the older of the two. Every three years, moreover, the image of the patroness visits Pozuelo de Calatrava for a week.
Night of the Bonfires of Pozuelo
Activity
The Night of the Bonfires is celebrated in Pozuelo de Calatrava, a municipality in the Campo de Calatrava district (Ciudad Real), on the night of 7 December, the eve of the Immaculate Conception. Residents light numerous bonfires along the village streets and gather around them to eat and drink.