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Ciudad Real City Council offers you fantastic guided tours of the most emblematic areas of the city. The guided tours will be carried out by our official guides, experts in all the places you can access and visit. Thanks to them you will learn thousands of stories and legends that surround the La Mancha city, you will meet numerous historical figures who have passed or lived in the royal city or in some of its municipalities.
Ciudad Real is one of the largest cities in Spain in terms of extension, it is made up of numerous municipalities, most of them with an enormous cultural heritage. In Ciudad Real you will see an endless number of architectural constructions:
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Catedral de Nuestra Señora del Prado, patron saint of the province and with festivity in August. The work of this Gothic construction lasted about a century, it began to be built in the 15th century, and the vault that belongs to the choir was completed in the 16th century. The cathedral has three different clearly differentiated façades, it is the oldest of all the ecclesiastical buildings in the city.
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Old Casino of Ciudad Real, this building is dated from 1887 and was one of the first in which iron was used for its construction. In its origins it had the functions of a casino with numerous entertainment rooms, later during the Civil War it served as a hospital for all the wounded.
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Iglesia de San Pedro, is a construction in the Gothic style of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, its construction was carried out around the entrance of three grandiose doors. It was made thanks to the boom that the city had at that time and the increase in demographics.
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Plaza Mayor, is the central area of the city where you can find all kinds of services for leisure and fun. It contains the City Hall building and the old Town Hall, among many other buildings.
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Puerta de Toledo, in 1255 King Alfonso X ordered the construction of a wall consisting, in principle, of eight huge gates. Currently only this door is preserved.
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Palacio de la Diputación, building built by Santiago Rebollar in 1892. It is a civil construction made up of three clearly differentiated facades, the one located in the center contains the city's coat of arms.
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La Casa del Arco, is a construction that was used as a Town Hall to deal with popular topics of interest, it was built thanks to the Order of the Courts of Toledo. It is currently located in the Plaza Mayor, located in front of the Town Hall and consists of a carillon clock inthe one that appears giving the hours of the day the famous Miguel de Cervantes, accompanied by his most picturesque characters: the emblematic Don Quixote de la Mancha and his faithful companion Sancho Panza.
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Torreón del Alcázar and Puerta de Santa María, is located in one of the best-known gardens in the city. It was also ordered to be built by King Alfonso X, the objective was to monitor from there any attack on the walled city, it was the highest construction that could exist in Ciudad Real. It also served as accommodation for the Catholic Monarchs on several occasions.
These monuments are just a few strokes of everything that is housed in Ciudad Real, if you want to know more and see all its perfect constructions come visit us. We are waiting for you with our guided tours that will leave you withoutbreath.
