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What to see and do in Barajas de Melo

What to see and do in Barajas de Melo (La Alcarria Conquense, Cuenca): 8 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 3 Monuments · 2 Nature · 2 Historical milestones

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What to see and do in Barajas de Melo

Barajas de Melo
Village
Municipality of the comarca of La Alcarria Conquense, in the province of Cuenca, detached from the jurisdiction of Huete by a royal provision of 1553, when it was called Barajas de Suso, and which two centuries later passed into the hands of Francisco de Melo, whose surname ended up being incorporated into its name. It preserves the church of San Juan Bautista, of the fifteenth century with a Gothic-Plateresque doorway framed in an ogee arch, the Jardín del Cerro, an estate of 1860 with a small palace, a chapel and an artificial lake, the nineteenth-century Fuente Alcázar mansion and the birthplace of the geographer and politician Fermín Caballero, today a cultural centre; in the Donace area the river Calvache rises.
Church of San Juan Bautista de Barajas de Melo
Monument
A 15th-century church with a Gothic-Plateresque doorway framed within an ogee arch.
Garden of the Cerro
Monument
The Jardín del Cerro is a country estate in Barajas de Melo, in the comarca of La Alcarria Conquense (Cuenca), founded in 1860 by the politician and naturalist Fermín Caballero. It brings together a manor house, a chapel and service buildings around an artificial lake with fountains and a jetty, as well as a garden with walks, squares and roundabouts. Today it is privately owned.
Birthplace of Fermín Caballero
Monument
The birthplace of Fermín Caballero, in Barajas de Melo (Alcarria Conquense, Cuenca), is today a cultural centre bearing his name that holds belongings, documents and bibliography about this illustrious figure. Caballero, born on 7 July 1800 into a family of well-off farmers, was a geographer, politician, writer and journalist, a deputy to the Cortes for Cuenca, Madrid, Castellón and Toledo between 1834 and 1854, and went on to become Minister of the Interior and mayor of Madrid. Among his works stand out the Nomenclatura geográfica de España (1834) and the Manual geográfico-administrativo de España (1844). He died in Madrid in 1876.
El Donace
Nature
The source of the River Calvache and one of the best preserved riverbanks in the Alcarria of Cuenca, with centuries-old trees.
Puerta Paredes
Nature
Puerta Paredes is a rock formation located a few metres from the source of the Donace, in Barajas de Melo (La Alcarria Conquense, Cuenca), where the Calvache river springs. It is the work of water erosion and serves as habitat for the eagle owl, integrated into the natural site surrounding the spring.
The separation of Barajas de Suso
Historical milestone
A royal provision of 1553 released from the jurisdiction of Huete the place then called Barajas de Suso. Two centuries later the village passed into the dominion of Francisco de Melo, whose surname ended up incorporated into its present name.
The Fuente Alcázar mansion
Historical milestone
Nineteenth-century seigneurial house in the urban centre of Barajas de Melo, with a continuous balcony on the first floor and flush balconies protected by ironwork. It is an example of the bourgeois architecture that the nineteenth century left in the Alcarria.