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What to see and do in Quintanar de la Orden

What to see and do in Quintanar de la Orden (La Mancha de Toledo, Toledo): 11 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 4 Monuments · 1 Activities · 2 Curiosities · 2 Historical milestones · 1 Food and drink

When to go to Quintanar de la Orden: festival calendar

March: Holy Week of Quintanar de la Orden (Marzo o abril)

How far each place is from the centre of Quintanar de la Orden

Bullring of Quintanar de la Orden 1.4 km

Towns near Quintanar de la Orden

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What to see and do in Quintanar de la Orden

Quintanar de la Orden
Village
Municipality of the comarca of La Mancha de Toledo, in the province of Toledo, resettled at the end of the twelfth century by the Order of Santiago and head of the Común de La Mancha created in 1344; it preserves the Gothic-Renaissance church of Santiago de la Espada, of the fifteenth century, brings together more than three hundred works of street art spread through its streets and works vineyards covered by the La Mancha denomination of origin.
Church of Santiago de la Espada
Monument
The church of Santiago de la Espada, the main monument of Quintanar de la Orden (La Mancha de Toledo), is a Gothic church with Renaissance and Plateresque elements, dating from the 15th century, evidence of the town's belonging to the Order of Santiago. It has a defensive-style tower, built from 1544 onwards. Inside it preserves an artistic altarpiece brought in 1992 from Tordesillas (Valladolid).
Stone House of Quintanar
Monument
Casa de Piedra de Quintanar de la Orden (Toledo), an 18th-century neoclassical palace and the most representative civil building of Quintanar's historic quarter. Also known as Palacete de los Rada or Casa del Virrey, it stands near the ermita de la Piedad and is linked to the Rada family.
Bullring of Quintanar de la Orden
Monument
Bullring of Quintanar de la Orden (Toledo), one of the most characteristic buildings of this Manchegan town. It dates from the 19th century, opened in 1879, and is built in neo-Mudéjar style, with its four access doors in the shape of horseshoe arches.
The urban museum of Quintanar
Monument
The town has 308 works of urban art spread through its streets, among them giant murals of Don Quixote and Dulcinea signed by well-known artists. Since 2021 it has had a School of Urban Art.
Quintana, the agricultural settlement
Curiosity
The name derives from the Latin quintāna, referring to farming settlements or to the square of a Roman camp. The reference to the Order was added when the town passed to the Order of Santiago, which resettled it in the late 12th century.
Fred Galiana, European champion
Curiosity
The boxer Fred Galiana, whose real name was Exuperancio Díaz Galiana, was born in Quintanar de la Orden (La Mancha de Toledo) in 1931. He was proclaimed European featherweight champion in consecutive years, 1955 and 1956, one of the great figures of Spanish boxing in the 1950s.
Holy Week of Quintanar de la Orden
Activity
A Passion celebration declared of Regional Tourist Interest, with processions through the old town.
The Común de La Mancha
Historical milestone
Alfonso XI granted a fuero to the villa in 1318 and his son don Fadrique, master of Santiago, granted the fueros of 1344 and created the Común de La Mancha, an association of Santiago councils whose capital status fell to Quintanar.
The railway of Quintanar
Historical milestone
The line reached Quintanar in 1909 and served for three quarters of a century to carry out wine, cheese and cereal towards Madrid and Levante. Its closure in 1985 left a good part of the comarca without a train and diverted the traffic to the road.
The La Mancha Designation of Origin
Food and drink
Quintanar is one of the Toledo municipalities covered by the most extensive wine designation of origin in Europe. From here came the muleteers who at the end of the nineteenth century distributed manchego wine and cheese through half of Spain.