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Wine Tower Museum

Socuéllamos, La Mancha, Ciudad Real

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Wine Tower Museum

Monument · Socuéllamos, La Mancha, Ciudad Real

The Museo Torre del Vino is located in Socuéllamos (Ciudad Real), a town whose main economic driver is wine-growing agriculture, and it is devoted to the history, production and conservation of wine. It has a permanent exhibition of photographs and farming implements, a conference room and a tasting room, as well as a lookout on its top floor from which the Manchegan countryside can be seen, which has earned it the nickname “the lighthouse of La Mancha”. The idea of building a tower devoted to wine dates back to 1962, though the project was abandoned for lack of funds; in 1995 the mayor Sebastián García revived it, siting it on the walls of the old 19th-century railway station. The museum opened on 10 December 2014.

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