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What to see and do in Villalba de la Sierra

What to see and do in Villalba de la Sierra (Serranía Media-Campichuelo y Serranía Baja, Cuenca): 2 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 1 Food and drink

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What to see and do in Villalba de la Sierra

Villalba de la Sierra
Village
Villalba de la Sierra is a municipality in the comarca of Serranía Media-Campichuelo y Serranía Baja, in the province of Cuenca, situated 20 km from the provincial capital, on the banks of the río Júcar. It has 569 inhabitants (INE 2025). Overlooking the Júcar gorge, whose upper stretches gave the sierra a river-trout cuisine — fried with ham, stewed with young garlic or preserved in escabeche — which remains the signature fish of its restaurants. In 1926 King Alfonso XIII inaugurated the El Salto hydroelectric power station, fed by the Laguna de Uña, around which a settlement of Neo-Plateresque architecture was built that is still used as workers' housing. Traditionally agricultural and forestry-based, tourism is now its fastest-growing activity.
Trout of the Júcar gorge
Food and drink
The upper stretches of the Júcar gave the sierra a river trout cooking: fried with ham, stewed with young garlic or preserved in a marinade. It remains the benchmark fish in the restaurants of the towns overlooking the gorge.