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What to see and do in Alcolea de Tajo

What to see and do in Alcolea de Tajo (La Campana de Oropesa, Toledo): 9 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 2 Monuments · 1 Nature · 1 Activities · 3 Curiosities · 1 Historical milestones

When to go to Alcolea de Tajo: festival calendar

May: Festivities of la Virgen de los Dolores (12 y 13 de mayo)

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What to see and do in Alcolea de Tajo

Alcolea de Tajo
Village
Municipality of the comarca of La Campana de Oropesa, in the province of Toledo, whose name comes from the Arabic al-quleya, the little castle, and which brings together four centres: the town and the hamlets of El Bercial, El Bercial de San Rafael and Vistalegre, which arose in the twentieth century with the irrigation of the vega, the floodplain, of the Tagus; its district preserves the Celtiberian castro, the fortified hill settlement, of the Cerro de la Mesa, of the sixth and fifth centuries BC, the medieval bridge of las Cañadas and, at Puente Pinos, Palaeolithic remains between 150,000 and 350,000 years old.
Church of Nuestra Señora de la Asunción de Alcolea de Tajo
Monument
The church of Nuestra Señora de la Asunción, in Alcolea de Tajo, in the Toledo district of La Campana de Oropesa, is a 15th-century church in Mudéjar Gothic style and the main monument of the municipality, next to the hamlet that overlooks the Tagus. It stands out for its slender four-storey tower with semicircular arches and for a coffered wooden ceiling that springs from a semicircular stone arch. It preserves a baptismal font carved in stone from the 11th century and an image of Christ, known as El Gringo, brought from Peru in the 16th century by a bishop of Lima who was a native of the village. In 1763, Agustín Contreras donated a large, finely worked lamp to the church, along with an altarpiece and liturgical objects.
Bridge of las Cañadas
Monument
Medieval bridge in the district of Alcolea de Tajo, linked to the cattle droving routes that crossed the area. It is located on the outskirts of the municipality, on the route of the Cañada Real Leonesa Oriental towards Extremadura and Andalusia, and is also part of the Camino Real de Guadalupe.
Hillfort of el Cerro de la Mesa
Nature
The site of a Celtiberian hill fort of the 6th and 5th centuries BC on the Cerro de la Mesa, one of the most important archaeological complexes in the comarca.
Al-quleya, the little castle
Curiosity
The place name comes from the Arabic al-quleya, a diminutive of al-qal'a, meaning the little castle, in reference to the Andalusi fortification from which the present village grew.
The hunters of Puente Pinos
Curiosity
The site of Puente Pinos has yielded remains of Palaeolithic settlements between 150,000 and 350,000 years old, among the oldest documented in the province.
The 1812 Constitution oath
Curiosity
On 15 August 1812 the people of Alcolea de Tajo solemnly swore allegiance to the Spanish Constitution promulgated in Cádiz that same year.
Festivities of la Virgen de los Dolores
Activity
Alcolea de Tajo celebrates its festivities in honor of Nuestra Señora de los Dolores on the 12th and 13th of May, in memory of an episode in 1779 in which the Virgin spared the crops from a storm.
El Bercial and the colonization villages
Historical milestone
The municipal district brings together four settlements: the villa and the outlying villages of El Bercial, El Bercial de San Rafael and Vistalegre, which arose in the twentieth century with the irrigation of the vega of the Tagus and the distribution of plots to settlers.