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What to see and do in Las Labores

What to see and do in Las Labores (La Mancha, Ciudad Real): 6 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 1 Monuments · 1 Nature · 2 Activities · 1 Curiosities

When to go to Las Labores: festival calendar

August: Festivities of la Virgen del Sagrario de Las Labores (August 15)
November: Festivities of San Carlos Borromeo (November 4)

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What to see and do in Las Labores

Las Labores
Village
Municipality of the comarca of La Mancha, in the province of Ciudad Real, which was called Las Otras Casas and was born as a hamlet dependent on Arenas de San Juan until it obtained municipal independence on 22 January 1843; its small built-up area is organised around the parish church dedicated to San Carlos Borromeo, the patron saint celebrated at the beginning of November. Its landscape is that of a plain of vineyard and olive grove that sustains two agricultural cooperatives and an oil mill.
Parish church of Las Labores
Monument
Parish church of Las Labores, dedicated to its patron saint, San Carlos Borromeo (Saint Charles Borromeo), around which the small town centre is organised. For a time it was an annexed church of the parish of Arenas de San Juan, before becoming independent. Every 4 November, the patron saint's feast day, a mass is held inside.
The vineyards and olive groves of Las Labores
Nature
The landscape of Las Labores (Ciudad Real) is one of a plain of vineyards and olive groves. The most important crop is the grapevine, with two cooperatives producing wine, Virgen del Sagrario and San Isidro Labrador. The olive groves are organised around the San Carlos Borromeo cooperative, which markets its oil under the Laboreño brand; there is currently no privately owned oil mill in the village.
Festivities of la Virgen del Sagrario de Las Labores
Activity
Las Labores celebrates its patroness, the Virgen del Sagrario, on 15 August (the main festival), preceded on 30 April by the singing of the Mayos to the Virgin by the young people of the village. Its patron saint, San Carlos Borromeo, is celebrated on 4 November with a morning mass in the church that bears his name and, at night, a popular dance at the Círculo San Carlos Borromeo.
Festivities of San Carlos Borromeo
Activity
Patronal festivities of Las Labores (Ciudad Real) in honour of San Carlos Borromeo (Saint Charles Borromeo), an Italian cardinal and Archbishop of Milan, nephew of Pope Pius IV, and one of the great figures of the Catholic Counter-Reformation alongside Ignatius of Loyola and Philip Neri; he promoted the founding of seminaries for the training of priests, a proposal approved at the Council of Trent. Canonised in 1610, his feast day is celebrated on 4 November, the day on which Las Labores honours its patron saint.
From Las Otras Casas to Las Labores
Curiosity
Las Labores, in the La Mancha region of Ciudad Real, was called Las Otras Casas until the 17th century: it began as a hamlet dependent on the village of Arenas de San Juan, made up of farmhouses inhabited by people who had come from Herencia, which is where its present name comes from. It gained municipal independence on 22 January 1843.