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Ciudad Real City Council offers you some 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 city of La Mancha, you will meet numerous historical figures who have passed through 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 area, it is made up of numerous municipalities, most of them with an enormous cultural heritage. In Ciudad Real you can see an endless number of architectural constructions:
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Cathedral of Our Lady of Prado, patron saint of the province and with a festival in August. The work on this Gothic construction lasted about a century, construction began 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 dates back to 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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Church of San Pedro is a Gothic style construction from the 14th and 15th centuries, its construction was carried out around the entrance of three great doors. It was carried out thanks to the boom that the city was having 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 Town Hall building and the old Town Hall, among many other buildings.
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Puerta de ToledoIn the year 1255, King Alfonso X ordered the construction of a wall composed, in principle, of eight enormous gates. Currently only this door remains.
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Palace of the Provincial Council, 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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The House of the Arch, is a construction that was used as the Town Hall to address issues of popular interest, it was built thanks to the Order of the Cortes of Toledo. It is currently located in the Plaza Mayor, located in front of the Town Hall and consists of a chiming clock inwhich appears telling the hours of the day the famous Miguel de Cervantes, accompanied by his most colorful characters: the emblematic Don Quixote of 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 of the city. It was also ordered to be built by King Alfonso It also served as accommodation on several occasions for the Catholic Monarchs.
These monuments are just a few glimpses of everything that Ciudad Real houses, 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 breathless.breath.
