The village on the sunny slope of the sierra Curiosity · Hinojosas de Calatrava, Valle de Alcudia, Ciudad Real 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. Photo: Driebex (CC BY-SA 4.0) What to see and do in Hinojosas de Calatrava