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What to see and do in Santa Elena de Jamuz

What to see and do in Santa Elena de Jamuz (La Bañeza, León): 4 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 1 Nature · 2 Curiosities

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Pottery of Jiménez de Jamuz 3.6 km

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What to see and do in Santa Elena de Jamuz

Santa Elena de Jamuz
Village
Santa Elena de Jamuz is a municipality in León with 1,021 inhabitants, watered by the Jamuz river, whose economy is based on the growing of pulses, cereals, potatoes and sugar beet, as well as dairy cattle farming and forges. In the settlement of Jiménez de Jamuz a traditional pottery industry remains alive, together with a notable hospitality trade, also characteristic of this locality of the municipality.
Pottery of Jiménez de Jamuz
Curiosity
Jiménez de Jamuz, a hamlet of Santa Elena de Jamuz on the banks of the río Jamuz, preserves a long pottery tradition with workshops such as Taruso, Valentín Peñín, Miguel San Juan Peñín and Esteban, and has a Pottery Museum devoted to this craft. Its clay was used by Antoni Gaudí for the ceramic pieces that cover part of the Bishop's Palace of Astorga. The village is also notable for its caves or cellars dug next to the river, once used to make and store the local wine and now converted into gathering places, and for its own traditions such as the mayos, the autumn comedies and a living Passion play performed since 1976.
Cave cellars of the Jamuz River
Curiosity
Caves dug beside the riverbank that are called bodegas because the wine for family consumption was made and stored in them. Today they serve mainly as picnic spots, taking advantage of the coolness inside in high summer.
Jamuz riverside
Nature
The Jamuz waters a corridor of huerta plots, pulses, potatoes and sugar beet before giving itself up to the Órbigo. Its clay banks have provided both the raw material for the potteries and the hollows for the dug-out bodegas.