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What to see and do in El Casar de Escalona

What to see and do in El Casar de Escalona (Torrijos, Toledo): 3 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 1 Monuments · 1 Activities

When to go to El Casar de Escalona: festival calendar

May: Pilgrimage of Nuestra Señora de Hortum Sancho (second Sunday of May)

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What to see and do in El Casar de Escalona

El Casar de Escalona
Village
El Casar de Escalona is a municipality in the Torrijos comarca, in the province of Toledo, with 2,280 inhabitants (INE 2025), spread between the town centre and several housing developments that arose in the 1970s and 1980s. Its name refers to a group of houses - a casar - that came to form a village, linked to the old lordship of Escalona; it was previously called El Casar del Alberche, after the river that runs about two kilometres north of the town. Resettled in the mid-12th century after the Reconquista, it received the title of town from Philip IV in 1634. Its main monument is the parish church dedicated to san Julián and santa Basilisa, next to the hermitage of San Roque.
Church of San Julián y Santa Basilisa
Monument
The church of San Julián y Santa Basilisa, a parish temple dedicated to these saints, is the main monument of El Casar de Escalona. Pascual Madoz's Diccionario geográfico, in the mid-19th century, already recorded it as a parish church with a curacy of second ascent and ordinary appointment, confirming its antiquity as the locality's religious seat.
Pilgrimage of Nuestra Señora de Hortum Sancho
Activity
The pilgrimage to the bank of the river Alberche in honour of Our Lady of Hortum Sancho, patron saint of El Casar de Escalona, is held every year on the second Sunday of May, when the townspeople accompany the Virgin to the riverbank.