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What to see and do in Villanueva de la Torre

What to see and do in Villanueva de la Torre (La Campiña, Guadalajara): 6 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

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

When to go to Villanueva de la Torre: festival calendar

February: Festivities of Santa Águeda de Villanueva de la Torre (February 5)
May: Festival of la Virgen del Amor Hermoso (last Sunday of May)

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What to see and do in Villanueva de la Torre

Villanueva de la Torre
Village
Villanueva de la Torre is a municipality of the La Campiña comarca (Guadalajara), with 6,666 inhabitants (INE 2025), located at 691 metres altitude in a narrow valley crossed by the streams of las Monjas, los Majuelos and la Calva. Reconquered around 1085 by Álvar Fáñez, in 1575 it had only sixty residents engaged in farming the campiña; for centuries it was a small settlement until the 2005 urban development plan drove strong growth with new residential neighbourhoods. Its church of Santa María, from the first half of the 16th century, has a Renaissance portico of six round arches, wooden coffered ceilings and a brick-and-stone tower, and among its festivals is Santa Águeda, to whom local tradition attributes the end of an old epidemic.
Church of Santa María de Villanueva de la Torre
Monument
A church from the first half of the 16th century with a Renaissance portico of six semicircular arches on well-carved ashlar columns, wooden coffered ceilings - a plain one in the nave and another of interlaced beams in the chancel - and a brick and stone tower that gives the village its name. The building suffered significant damage during the Peninsular War and the civil war, which caused much of the original interior decoration to disappear, although the structure of the coffered ceilings is preserved.
The Winged Victory of Villanueva de la Torre
Curiosity
A replica of the Winged Victory, flanked by two classical female sculptures, presides over a roundabout in the municipality and has become one of its most recognisable images.
The streams of Villanueva de la Torre
Nature
Three streams cross the municipality of Villanueva de la Torre, those of las Monjas, los Majuelos and la Calva, in a countryside landscape at 691 metres above sea level. The canal of the río Henares also runs through the municipality, completing the local network of waterways.
Festivities of Santa Águeda de Villanueva de la Torre
Activity
Feast of Santa Águeda in Villanueva de la Torre, celebrated on 5 February. Local tradition tells that on that day the plague afflicting the village disappeared, and ever since the residents have honoured the saint whose feast day coincides with that date.
Festival of la Virgen del Amor Hermoso
Activity
Celebration organised by the women's confraternity of the village, with a solemn mass and procession. It is held on the last Sunday of May, preceded by a triduum that ends on the Saturday before the feast; the origin of this tradition is unknown.