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What to see and do in Gascueña

What to see and do in Gascueña (La Alcarria Conquense, Cuenca): 4 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 1 Monuments · 1 Curiosities · 1 Food and drink

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What to see and do in Gascueña

Gascueña
Village
Municipality of the comarca of La Alcarria Conquense, in the province of Cuenca, which in the mid-nineteenth century counted 976 inhabitants and today does not reach a hundred and fifty, one of the sharpest cases of depopulation in the comarca; its parish church is dedicated to the Nativity of Our Lady and the village also had three chapels within the built-up area, those of San Ginés, El Rosal and San Miguel.
Church of la Natividad de Nuestra Señora de Gascueña
Monument
Parish church of Gascueña under the invocation of the Natividad de Nuestra Señora. The village also had three urban hermitages, those of San Ginés, El Rosal and San Miguel, located towards the north and west of the town according to Madoz's 1847 dictionary.
The Gascueña of a thousand residents
Curiosity
In the mid-19th century Gascueña had a census of 976 inhabitants spread across 350 houses, according to Madoz's dictionary, which also recorded twenty linen looms and four wool looms, as well as two flour mills and one oil mill. Today it does not reach one hundred and fifty, one of the most pronounced cases of depopulation in the comarca: in recent decades it has gone from 199 inhabitants in 1991 to 132 in 2025, with the disappearance of that textile and milling activity that once sustained the village.
Honey of La Alcarria
Food and drink
Designation of Origin created in 1992 that brings together some two hundred and thirty municipalities of Guadalajara and Cuenca. It covers monofloral honeys of rosemary and of lavender and multifloral honey, obtained in a landscape of high plains and aromatic plants.