Village
Sisante is a municipality in the comarca of La Manchuela Conquense, in the province of Cuenca, with 1,640 inhabitants (INE 2025), which in 2021 won the competition “El Pueblo Más Bonito de Castilla-La Mancha”. Its economy is based on vines, almond trees, olive trees and cereal, and it shares with Vara de Rey, Tébar and Atalaya del Cañavate a wind farm of 132 turbines and 198 MW. It has a Poor Clares convent built between 1702 and 1708 on the initiative of Padre Hortelano, a native of the village, which houses a Jesús Nazareno attributed to Luisa Roldán, chamber sculptor to Charles II, as well as the 17th-century church of Santa Catalina, with a three-tiered tower, and the palace-house La Sevillana. At the feast of San Antón, animals are blessed and cuerva, a local drink of wine and fruit, is handed out.
Monument
The church of Santa Catalina, in Sisante, in the Manchuela Conquense, was built in the 17th century and consolidated in the 18th. It has a Latin-cross plan, with barrel vaults, chapels and buttresses, and a three-tiered tower with a belfry bearing a sundial on its right-hand side. It stands on the Plaza de Fernández Turégano and, in one of the arms of the cross, houses the chapel of the Rosario.
Monument
A convent of Poor Clare nuns in Sisante that has its origin in a beaterio founded on 6 January 1695 by Father Cristóbal Jesús Hortelano, with seven women devoted to religious life in community. The present building, of three floors with an infirmary, novitiate, refectory and workroom, was built between 14 October 1702 and 18 May 1708. It safeguards an image of the Padre Jesús Nazareno attributed to the sculptor Luisa Roldán, commissioned by King Charles II from his court sculptor as a gift for the pope, and which arrived at the convent on 14 September 1711; according to tradition, it is carried in procession only once every hundred years. The convent also preserves an image of the Dolorosa.
Monument
The Casa-Palacio La Sevillana, in Sisante (the Manchuela Conquense, Cuenca), is a mansion from the late 17th century that reflects the economic boom experienced by the town during the 17th and 18th centuries. Its huge doorway stands out, decorated with two pairs of columns on each side and three coats of arms that belonged to a family of hidalgos from the village, whose blazon is repeated on another manor house in the town.
Monument
Hermitage of San Bartolomé of Sisante (Cuenca), from the end of the 16th century. It has a square plan about five metres on each side, covered by a hemispherical dome on pendentives and decorated with polychrome plasterwork reliefs.
Curiosity
The carving of Nuestro Padre Jesús Nazareno venerated in Sisante is attributed to Luisa Roldán, La Roldana, court sculptor to Carlos II. It is the most valuable work of art in the municipality.
Activity
The fair and festivities of Nuestro Padre Jesús Nazareno, in Sisante, in the Manchuela Conquense, are celebrated from 13 to 17 September in honour of the most venerated image in the village, with processions and popular events. It is a sculpture attributed to Luisa Roldán which, according to tradition, was a papal gift commissioned by King Charles II and which, after the pontiff's death, remained in Sisante, kept in a convent. Tradition dictates that it descends from its niche once every hundred years, and processions are documented in 1819, 1911, 1939, 2000 and 2011.
Activity
The festival of San Antón is celebrated in Sisante (Cuenca) on 17 January with a procession through the town, during which the traditional cuerva is drunk, and in the afternoon the animals are blessed. As tradition dictates, on that day three circuits are made around the hermitage, so as to remain protected by the saint throughout the year.
Food and drink
Salad of roasted or raw tomato and pepper, onion, olives, boiled egg and salt cod or tuna, dressed with plenty of olive oil. It is eaten by dipping bread into the same dish, which is where the name comes from.