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What to see and do in San Clemente

What to see and do in San Clemente (La Mancha Conquense, Cuenca): 3 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 2 Historical milestones

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Town Hall of San Clemente 50 m

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What to see and do in San Clemente

San Clemente
Village
San Clemente is a municipality in La Mancha Conquense, in the southwest of the province of Cuenca, the head of a judicial district and the most important town in this flat comarca. Situated on the banks of the Rus river, at 722 metres above sea level, it was raised to town status by don Juan Pacheco in 1445. Its old town was declared a historic-artistic site in 1980, and it also has two Bienes de Interés Cultural (Spain's highest level of heritage protection): the Renaissance town hall on the plaza Mayor, begun in 1566 to a design by Domingo de Zalvide and completed in 1622, and the church of Santiago Apóstol.
San Clemente, a town since 1445
Historical milestone
Don Juan Pacheco raised San Clemente to the condition of villa in 1445. In 1488 the Catholic Monarchs visited the town and confirmed its privileges, and the resulting urban centre was declared a historic-artistic ensemble in 1980.
Town Hall of San Clemente
Historical milestone
The town hall of San Clemente is a Renaissance building, in the line of pure classicism, begun in 1566 to designs by the architect Domingo de Zalvide and completed in 1622; its construction has also been linked to the master stonemason Andrés de Vandelvira, who is thought to have acted as designer. Rectangular in plan and set on a corner, it has two storeys and a tower crowned by a large royal coat of arms of the Habsburgs. Its arcaded façade, which in its day was fully porticoed, presides over the plaza Mayor and forms one of the best-preserved Renaissance civil ensembles in the province of Cuenca; San Clemente was declared a historic-artistic site in 1980, and the building, Bien de Interés Cultural (Spain's highest level of heritage protection), in 1992.