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What to see and do in El Casar

What to see and do in El Casar (La Campiña, Guadalajara): 8 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 3 Monuments · 2 Activities · 1 Curiosities · 1 Food and drink

When to go to El Casar: festival calendar

February: The Candlemas of El Casar (first weekend of February)
September: Patron saint festivities of El Casar (first Sunday of September)

Towns near El Casar

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What to see and do in El Casar

El Casar
Village
Municipality of the comarca of La Campiña, in the province of Guadalajara, founded in 1085 during the resettlement that followed the conquest and a free concejo, a self-governing council, since 1592, whose Plaza Mayor is presided over by the church of la Asunción, of the sixteenth century and with a Mudéjar high choir, while to the north of the village stands a seventeenth-century Calvary; it celebrates Candlemas, declared of Provincial Tourist Interest, with satirical readings from the town hall balcony, and its grill houses keep up milk-fed lamb and kid roasted in a wood-fired oven.
Church of la Asunción de El Casar
Monument
The 16th-century parish church of the Asunción presides over the plaza Mayor of El Casar. One of its most singular features is the raised choir located inside, facing the main altar, whose altarpiece is the work of Antonio de Herrera Barnuevo and Martín de Ortega.
The Calvary of El Casar
Monument
A 17th-century humilladero housing a Calvary with the images of Christ and the two thieves, located north of the village on the initiative of the canon Diego López. The site also serves as a viewpoint from which much of the Sistema Central can be seen, adding to its religious value that of being one of the spots with the best views of El Casar.
Hermitage of la Soledad de El Casar
Monument
Ermita de la Soledad of El Casar, a chapel built in brick in the 17th century. On the south wall opens a simple doorway, protected by studded wooden doors with small peepholes. Inside it has a single nave, of rectangular plan and three bays, covered with a barrel vault with lunettes, a solution typical of the rural religious architecture of the period.
El Casar, a free council since 1592
Curiosity
El Casar traces its founding back to 1085, during the resettlements that followed the Castilian conquest. Over the centuries it belonged to the royal lordship, then passed to the archbishops of Toledo until the 16th century and later returned to the Crown, which sold the town to the Duke of Salerno; he in turn resold it to the Negrón family, who established an entailed estate. When that entailed estate came to an end in 1592, El Casar began to function as a free council, a status it has kept from then until today.
The Candlemas of El Casar
Activity
A feast declared Fiesta de Interés Turístico Provincial (a provincial-level tourism distinction), with satirical readings from the town hall balcony. It is celebrated on the first weekend of February and consists of the reading, from the council balcony, of the Carta de Candelas, a satirical text about the cuadrilla that is the protagonist of the feast that year.
Patron saint festivities of El Casar
Activity
Main feasts of El Casar, a municipality in the La Campiña district (Guadalajara), celebrated on the first Sunday of September in honour of the Virgen de la Antigua, patron saint of the town.
Roast lamb and kid
Food and drink
Roast suckling lamb in a wood-fired oven is the great dish of the province and it sustains a row of roasting houses in the towns of the north of the comarca. It is served with salad from the vegetable garden and accompanied by wines from the land of Castile.