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What to see and do in El Romeral

What to see and do in El Romeral (La Mancha de Toledo, Toledo): 8 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 4 Monuments · 1 Activities · 1 Curiosities · 1 Historical milestones

When to go to El Romeral: festival calendar

April: Festival of los Molinos (April)

How far each place is from the centre of El Romeral

Church of Nuestra Señora de la Asunción de El Romeral 6.1 km

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What to see and do in El Romeral

El Romeral
Village
Municipality of the comarca of La Mancha de Toledo, in the province of Toledo, whose economy depended on the esparto industry from the sixteenth century to the mid-twentieth, a trade to which it devotes a museum opened in the year 2000; on the rise that dominates the village four windmills stand in line, the protagonists of the Fiesta de Los Molinos, its ethnographic museum is set up in a natural cave and its district was the scene in 1521 of the battle of las Atalayuelas, an episode of the War of the Comuneros of Castile.
Church of Nuestra Señora de la Asunción de El Romeral
Monument
Church of El Romeral (Toledo, La Mancha toledana), a church from the late 15th century and the main monument in this small town. It is Gothic in style: above the presbytery, built first, rises a Gothic tierceron vault bearing the coat of arms of Cardinal Mendoza, Archbishop of Toledo between 1483 and 1495; the nave was finished last. It follows the Christian canon of east-west orientation, with the entrance facing towards Jerusalem. It originally also served as a burial place, until the graves were moved to an outside cemetery. In 1521 it received the bodies of 57 victims of the battle of las Atalayuelas, during the Comunidades revolt, buried within it.
Windmills of El Romeral
Monument
The group of windmills of El Romeral, located on the hilltop overlooking the town, in the comarca of La Mancha de Toledo, consists of four windmills with their own names: Pechuga, Crítica, Los Gorrinos and Muela. The Pechuga windmill underwent a severe reconstruction but retains its interior machinery intact; Crítica and Los Gorrinos have been adapted as exhibition space, open to the public on certain occasions during the year; and the Muela windmill, privately owned, is still awaiting restoration. Together they form one of the most recognisable images of the Cervantine landscape of La Mancha.
Museum of el Esparto
Monument
The Esparto Museum occupies a former municipal grain silo in El Romeral (La Mancha de Toledo), refurbished for this purpose in 2000. Across three floors it documents the extraction and preparation of esparto fibre and the craft trades linked to it: the first floor explains the extraction and preparation process, the second brings together pieces made with this plant fibre, and the third holds documentary material. The museum thus preserves the memory of a trade that was central to the local economy.
Ethnographic Museum of El Romeral
Monument
Ethnographic Museum of El Romeral (Toledo), housed in an old cave that runs deep into a hill. It brings together farming implements and household goods that illustrate the traditional life of the municipality, using the natural cavity itself, dug into the hillside, as the exhibition hall.
The century of esparto
Curiosity
The esparto industry dominated the economy of El Romeral from the 16th century until the mid-20th century and explains how the town came to exceed three thousand inhabitants in the 1940s.
The Battle of las Atalayuelas
Historical milestone
The municipality of El Romeral was the scene, in 1521, of the Battle of the Atalayuelas, one of the episodes of the Revolt of the Comuneros of Castile. Troops loyal to King Charles I, led by the corraleño Gonzalo Collado, clashed with comunero forces aligned with the bishop of Zamora, Antonio de Acuña. Victory went to the royalist side, in a battle that left 57 dead, buried in the parish church of the Virgin of the Assumption of El Romeral.
Festival of los Molinos
Activity
Festival held by El Romeral on the last weekend of April, over two days, around the windmills that crown the village. The programme includes a tribute to Cervantes, theatrical performances and parades in period costume recreating the La Mancha atmosphere of Don Quixote, as well as a popular tasting of migas. It is one of the most distinctive dates on the local calendar, designed to present the village as a typical picture of La Mancha, with its windmills and traditional architecture.