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What to see and do in Campos del Río

What to see and do in Campos del Río (Río Mula, Murcia): 13 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 4 Monuments · 2 Activities · 2 Curiosities · 3 Historical milestones · 1 Food and drink

When to go to Campos del Río: festival calendar

March: Festivities of San José de Los Rodeos (March 19)
June: Patronal Festival of San Juan of Campos del Río (June 24)

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What to see and do in Campos del Río

Campos del Río
Village
Campos del Río is a municipality in the interior of the Region of Murcia, in the Mula River comarca, with 2,159 inhabitants (INE 2025). Documented since 1257, when Alfonso X of Castile ceded the hamlet of Campos to the council of Mula, it became independent around 1845 and took its current name in the 1916 reform of place names. Between 1933 and 1971 it had its own station on the Murcia-Caravaca railway line. Its economy, traditionally based on small trade, agriculture and livestock farming, today combines the closure of the old Halcón Foods cannery with new e-commerce businesses. In the town can be seen the old church of San Juan Bautista, from the 18th century, the Clock Tower and the old bridge over the Mula River. Its patronal festivities, in honour of San Juan, are held on 24 June.
Church of San Juan Bautista de Campos del Río
Monument
Baroque church of the late 18th century in Campos del Río, with works by the sculptor Francisco Salzillo and his pupil Roque López.
Viewpoint of el Castillo de Campos del Río
Monument
Viewpoint in Campos del Río next to the clock tower, looking out over the town.
Festivities of San José de Los Rodeos
Activity
The festivities of San José in the hamlet of Los Rodeos, Campos del Río, are held on the 19th of March, within the municipality's festive calendar, which also includes San Antón (17th of January) and San Juan (24th of June, patronal).
Tower of el Reloj de Campos del Río
Monument
Building probably raised in the 19th century next to the town hall, on the square that takes its name, which was also used at one time as the municipal jail.
Patronal Festival of San Juan of Campos del Río
Activity
Patron saint festivities of Campos del Río (Río Mula, Murcia) in honour of San Juan Bautista, held on 24 June, with the parish church as the centre of the religious and popular events that bring together the whole town. The municipality also preserves the old parish church of San Juan Bautista, from the 18th century, known as the old church.
Medieval Founding of Campos del Río
Curiosity
The first written references to the municipality date from 1257, when a charter granted by Alfonso X the Wise at Alpera ceded Campos as a village dependent on Mula; before the Castilian reconquest of 1243 it was a settlement of Arab origin.
Calle Rosario of Campos del Río
Monument
A street in the town of Campos del Río made up almost entirely of manor houses from the early 20th century.
Canning industry of Campos del Río
Curiosity
Industrial activity that transformed the market-garden economy of Campos del Río during the 20th century, tied to the use of local farm produce. Among the municipality's canning factories, Halcón Foods stood out, and its closure was a hard blow to the local economy.
The cession of the hamlet of Campos to the council of Mula
Historical milestone
Alfonso X handed over in 1257 by wheeled privilege the village of Campos to the council of Mula, on which it would depend for almost six centuries; the village lived from the irrigated land of the river Mula and from a bridge that was an obligatory crossing towards the plain.
The municipal independence of Campos
Historical milestone
In 1845 the village of Campos definitively separated from the municipality of Mula and formed its own municipal council, completing a process of emancipation driven by the agricultural growth of its lowlands.
The name change to Campos del Río
Historical milestone
The reform of Spanish municipal nomenclature of 1916 made it necessary to distinguish the numerous repeated place names, and the municipality came to be called Campos del Río, in reference to the watercourse that crosses its territory.
Artisan goat cheese
Food and drink
The goat stock of the hills that surround the lowlands supplies milk to the municipality's traditional dairies, where fresh and cured cheeses are made that are eaten on their own, fried or accompanying the migas.