Attractions and Places To See around Lillo - Top 20

What to see in La Guardia (Toledo) Palace-House of the Jaenes (Ethnological Museum) Church of Our Lady of the Assumption Hermitage of the Holy Child Historic town center and castle ruins Cave houses and dwellings carved into the rock Natural surroundings of the Cedrón Stream and the La Guardia Lagoon Wineries and wine from the Campo de La Guardia region Main Square

La Guardia is considered a small town, but surprisingly rich in heritage, ideal for a peaceful getaway from Madrid or Toledo. Its hilltop location affords panoramic views, streets steeped in history, and a distinctive character. Although it seems like a town you could visit in a morning, it holds more history, architecture, and scenery than meets the eye. Furthermore, it's part of a renowned wine-producing region: within its boundaries lies the Pago Campo de La Guardia vineyard, a wine with a protected designation of origin, adding value for wine tourism enthusiasts.

Villacañas (Toledo), in the heart of Toledo's La Mancha region, is a destination that combines cultural heritage, unique nature, and singular traditions.

The Plaza Mayor of Tembleque, located in the province of Toledo, is one of the most outstanding examples of Castilian popular Baroque and an architectural gem of La Mancha. Construction: Completed in 1598, following the layout of traditional comedy theaters and inns.

Stage 1. Villacañas/Pedro Muñoz 94 kilometers. 480 positive meters. At the railway station in the Toledo town of Villacañas there is a comfortable parking lot on the side of the town to pack your bags on your bicycle, it is the starting point of the tourist cycle trip to the lake wonders of La Mancha Húmeda. First you have to cross the train tracks through a pedestrian crossing, which can be done without getting off the bike with good balance, and as soon as you cross to the other side the surface of the Trenillo Natural Trail begins. The greenway information panel is a few meters to the right, outside the route, on the esplanade of the old station. The roadbed of the old La Mancha railway goes straight towards Quintanar de la Orden, passes through a roundabout and a kilometer later the detour to the La Mancha Wetlands Natural Trail appears, well signposted on the wall of a country house. The path crosses the La Villa de Don Fadrique road and the show begins, in a large hollow emerges the blue patina of the Larga Lagoon and a detour towards the ornithological observatory on the edge of the wetland. Binoculars are recommended to see the birds up close, sometimes they are far from the shore and at first glance they are small specks on the surface of the water. The road surface is completely gravel, flat, comfortable and fast, it continues through the La Mancha plateau and enters the Cañada Real Soriana Oriental, one of the great pastoral routes that runs through the Iberian Peninsula between the Iberian System and Andalusia. The cattle glen is marked with milestones on the road posts and the route appears perfectly clear on the ground. The 90 Castilian varas (72.22 meters) wide of the livestock route define a natural highway between the agricultural fields, evoking the glorious era of the Mesta and transhumance, from its creation in the 13th century and throughout the Age. Middle, practically until the 19th century, when the powerful migratory routes marked the pulse of the culture, economy and progress of rural societies, they were channels of commerce and communication with a constant social life and it is always pleasant to plan by bicycle over the traces of history, culture and landscape that have had essential meaning over time. The ravine passes through Las Casas Romanas and there is a detour to the left towards the Taray lagoon, which is really a shortcut from the main itinerary. The route continues straight ahead and crosses the Villafranca de los Caballeros road, on the edge of the Tirez lagoon wetland. At the crossroads there is a rest area of the Don Quixote Route, a network of routes for cyclists, horseback riders and hikers of 2,500 kilometers following the places and places narrated in the work Don Quixote of La Mancha, by Miguel de Cervantes, discovering the adventures and misadventures of the knight errant and the faithful squire Sancho. The shore of the extensive Tirez lagoon is far away, it is a huge hypersaline steppe wetland where saltpeter was extracted until recently and it is common to see flamingos, little bustards and curlews. The path runs through the hills that surround the lagoon and changes direction to visit the unique group of Peñahueca lagoons, a saline wetland that looks like a lake setting of the Andean highlands. The wetland is shallow and when the salt precipitates it creates curious saline concretions adorning the small islands and sand corridors that appear within the lagoon. And shortly after there is the detour to the Taray lagoon, which would be the direct shortcut from the royal canyon. The ornithological observatory is one kilometer to the left.

At the same entrance is the Cross of the Fallen of Tembleque.

The church of Our Lady of the Assumption of Tembleque owes its construction to the expedition to Oran in 1509, commanded by Cardinal Cisneros. Indeed, in gratitude for the million maravedíes and the company of soldiers supplied by the town of Tembleque, Cisneros made large donations for the construction of the temple, to which were added the contributions of the Priors of San Juan and those of the residents of San Juan. Wobbly. It is a transitional building between Gothic and Renaissance. Essentially built in the first half of the 16th century, the modifications carried out between 1582 and 1596 were supervised by Nicolás Vergara el Mozo. It has a Latin cross plan, a single nave of considerable height and a polygonal head. The factory is made of ashlar with powerful buttresses on the outside.

In it we can find the tourist office and the Town Hall.