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What to see and do in Hinojosas de Calatrava

What to see and do in Hinojosas de Calatrava (Valle de Alcudia, Ciudad Real): 8 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 1 Monuments · 1 Nature · 2 Activities · 2 Curiosities · 1 Food and drink

When to go to Hinojosas de Calatrava: festival calendar

February: Festival of San Blas de Hinojosas de Calatrava (February 3)
August: Festivities of San Bernardo (August 20)

Towns near Hinojosas de Calatrava

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What to see and do in Hinojosas de Calatrava

Hinojosas de Calatrava
Village
Municipality of the comarca of Valle de Alcudia, in the province of Ciudad Real, which became independent from Puertollano in 1848 and was called simply Hinojosas until the 1930s; set on the sunny side of a range, it is today one of the usual stopping points to listen to the rutting of the deer between mid-September and mid-October, in the surroundings of the Valle de Alcudia y Sierra Madrona Nature Park. Its church of San Bernardo de Claraval dates from 1747 and the patron saint gives his name to festivals that marked the end of the cereal harvest; the writer, educationalist and feminist lawyer Leonor Serrano Pablo was born in the town.
Church of San Bernardo de Claraval
Monument
Parish church dating from 1747, dedicated to the town's patron saint and probably built on an earlier hermitage of the same dedication. In the 19th century it was a church annexed to the parish of Puertollano, served by a priest appointed by the prior of that town, belonging to the Order of Calatrava.
Leonor Serrano Pablo
Curiosity
Leonor Serrano Pablo (Hinojosas de Calatrava, 1890 - Madrid, 1942) was a pedagogue, jurist, lawyer and feminist writer. As a child she drew the admiration of the queen regent Maria Cristina of Habsburg-Lorraine, who in 1896 decided to fund her studies in Madrid. She trained as a teacher in Toledo and Guadalajara and graduated from the Escuela Superior de Magisterio, gaining a post as school inspector in Barcelona in 1913. On a scholarship from the town council, she travelled to Rome to study with Maria Montessori and afterwards promoted the adoption of her educational method. Married in 1915 to the pedagogue José María Xandri Pich, she wrote La educación de la mujer de mañana (1923) and El método Montessori (1928), and during the Dictatorship of Primo de Rivera she was exiled for her ideas.
The village on the sunny slope of the sierra
Curiosity
In the mid-19th century Pascual Madoz's dictionary describes a town of some 200 houses set on the sunny side of a sierra. It became independent from Puertollano in 1848 and until the 1930s was called simply Hinojosas.
Gateway to the deer rut of the Valle de Alcudia
Nature
The municipality is one of the usual stopping places for hearing the deer rut between mid-September and mid-October, in the area of the Valle de Alcudia y Sierra Madrona Natural Park.
Festivities of San Bernardo
Activity
Patron saint festival of Hinojosas de Calatrava in honour of San Bernardo, celebrated on 20 August, which traditionally marked the end of the cereal harvest, with a procession and popular festivities. He is the town's main patron, and its parish, dedicated to this saint, dates from 1747; as second patron, San Blas is venerated on 3 February, a feast linked to the olive-growing cycle and livestock farming.
Festival of San Blas de Hinojosas de Calatrava
Activity
The feast of San Blas is the celebration of the co-patron of Hinojosas de Calatrava, commemorated on 3 February. Together with the summer patron feast, it traditionally coincided with the end of the year's agricultural work: while the summer feast marked the end of the cereal harvest, that of San Blas marked the end of the olive harvest, both activities also linked to the livestock farming that sustained the town's economy.
The acorn-fed ibérico pork of the valley
Food and drink
The holm oak woods of the Valle de Alcudia allow the Iberian pig to be fattened on acorns during the montanera of autumn and winter. From there come hams, loins, chorizos and blood sausages cured in the dry cold of the sierra in family drying rooms.