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What to see and do in Cabanillas del Campo

What to see and do in Cabanillas del Campo (La Campiña, Guadalajara): 7 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 2 Monuments · 1 Nature · 2 Activities · 1 Curiosities

When to go to Cabanillas del Campo: festival calendar

February: San Blas in Cabanillas del Campo (February 3)
May: Festivities of el Cristo de la Expiración (first weekend of May)

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What to see and do in Cabanillas del Campo

Cabanillas del Campo
Village
Cabanillas del Campo is a municipality of the La Campiña comarca, in the province of Guadalajara, very close to the provincial capital, which forms part of the industrial axis of the Corredor del Henares and is one of the fastest-growing in population in the province, with 11,572 inhabitants. Its name recalls the shepherds' huts (cabañas) that sheltered there, and the surname «del Campo» comes from its belonging to the sexma del Campo, within the Comunidad de Villa y Tierra de Guadalajara. In 2022 it revived its botarga after a century and a half of interruption, and brings it out at the San Blas festival with dulzaina pipers; it also celebrates the Cristo de la Expiración, in memory of the locust plague of 1857, and preserves the old mansion that housed the town council and the Mirador del Henares park, overlooking the valley.
Church of San Pedro y San Pablo de Cabanillas
Monument
A 17th-century parish church that presides over the town's historic centre.
Old town hall of Cabanillas del Campo
Monument
A former Castilian manor house that housed the town council, preserved in the traditional centre of the town.
Park of el Mirador del Henares
Nature
The Mirador del Henares park, of nearly four hectares, overlooks the valley of the Henares river in Cabanillas del Campo (La Campiña district, Guadalajara), and owes its name to that dominant position over the valley. It is one of the municipality's large green spaces, together with the Antonio Buero Vallejo park, of two hectares, and the Elena de la Cruz park, of four, laid out along with other leisure areas during the housing developments of the 1990s and 2000s.
The botarga of Cabanillas
Curiosity
In 2022 the municipality revived its botarga after a century and a half without it, and joined the Ruta de las Botargas, which brings together masquerade traditions from several countries.
San Blas in Cabanillas del Campo
Activity
The feast of San Blas, patron saint of Cabanillas del Campo and protector of the throat, is celebrated on 3 February. In 2022 the Asociación de Mujeres La Campiña revived, drawing on oral tradition and historical documents, the figure of the botarga, lost some 150 years earlier; it goes out through the village that morning accompanying the dulzaina players and, after the procession, reappears to accompany the tasting of sweets. In 2023 El Campana was also revived, a character with cowbells at his belt who announces the arrival of the botarga. Both figures take part in the Ruta de las Botargas, an initiative of the Diputación de Guadalajara that brings together more than forty municipalities from Spain, Portugal, Italy and Mexico.
Festivities of el Cristo de la Expiración
Activity
The feasts of the Cristo de la Expiración of Cabanillas del Campo are celebrated on 4 May and commemorate the locust plague that in 1857 was devastating the village's crops: the villagers carried the image of the Santísimo Cristo out in procession and, according to tradition, the plague withdrew towards the river. A confraternity was founded from then on in honour of this image, which organises processions and masses every year together with brass bands and open-air dances in early May.