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What to see and do in Burguillos de Toledo

What to see and do in Burguillos de Toledo (Montes de Toledo, Toledo): 4 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 1 Monuments · 2 Activities

When to go to Burguillos de Toledo: festival calendar

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What to see and do in Burguillos de Toledo

Burguillos de Toledo
Village
Burguillos de Toledo is a municipality of Montes de Toledo, in Toledo, with 3,872 inhabitants, on flat land beside the Rosa stream, a tributary of the Tagus. Its name, documented as Borguiellas in the 13th century, derives from burgus, “small town”, and its origin lies in the hamlets that the people of Toledo used to build for the ploughing seasons. Until the reform of 1916 it was called simply Burguillos. Its most representative historic building is the hermitage of San Blas, from the 17th century, the destination of a pilgrimage with mass, procession and distribution of food; it also preserves the parish church of Santa María Magdalena, destroyed in 1936 and later rebuilt. It maintains two patronal festivities, that of the Men, in September, for the Cristo de la Fe, and that of the Women, in October, for the Virgen del Rosario.
Hermitage of San Blas de Burguillos
Monument
A 17th-century hermitage set in open countryside, next to the municipal cemetery, and the destination of the San Blas pilgrimage; it is the most representative historic building of Burguillos de Toledo. Although popularly known as the ermita de San Blas, it is in fact a church dedicated to Nuestra Señora de Burguillos, rebuilt between the 16th and 17th centuries on a dedication already documented in 1209. It has a Latin-cross plan, a single nave divided into four bays separated by pilasters, covered with a barrel vault with lunettes and a hemispherical dome over the crossing. On the outside, of Toledan brick-and-masonry construction, the simple façade stands out, with a central doorway and a two-arched bell-gable topped by a smaller third arch.
The Festivities of the Men and of the Women
Activity
Burguillos keeps two separate patron saint festivals: that of the Men, in September in honour of the Cristo de la Fe, and that of the Women, in October for the Virgen del Rosario, each organised by its own confraternity.
Pilgrimage of San Blas de Burguillos
Activity
The San Blas pilgrimage takes the residents of Burguillos de Toledo to the hermitage of the same name, a building rebuilt in the 16th and 17th centuries and actually dedicated to Nuestra Señora de Burguillos, already mentioned in a Mozarabic document of 1209. It is a church with a Latin-cross plan and a single nave, with a hemispherical dome over the crossing and a Toledan brick-and-masonry façade topped by a bell-gable; today it stands at the centre of the town's cemetery. In February, the pilgrimage to the hermitage includes a mass, a procession and the distribution of food among those attending.