cultural route
What to see in Tomelloso... The Athens of La Mancha, birthplace of illustrious painters and writers of the stature of Antonio López Torres, Antonio López García, Francisco García Pavón, Eladio Cabañero, Félix Grande, etc.
Lopez Torres Museum
Very interesting museum that houses an excellent collection of oil paintings and drawings. The playwright Francisco Nieva, a friend of Antonio López, gave the opening speech in April 1986. Apart from the collection and permanent exhibition, the museum has temporary exhibition rooms.
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Museum of the Car and Farm Tools
Ethnographic museum built in the 1960s, shows us how farmers worked the land and made wine decades ago.
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Infanta Elena Museum of Contemporary Art
It is considered one of the most important museums in Castilla la Mancha and offers visitors an extensive collection of works of contemporary art, which has been created thanks to the International Painting Competition, a competition that was created through the Education and Promotion Funds. from the Virgen de las Vías Cooperative-Almazara in 2001. In the permanent collection located on the first two floors, you can find works by 21st century artists of diverse tendencies, thus offering a plurality of visions of the painting of our time.
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Virgen de las Viñas Museum and Sanctuary
The Hermitage is a nave with a transept presided over by a beautiful image of its owner, the Holy Virgin of the Viñas. From its doors made of wrought iron and stained glass, its furniture, its stained glass windows with the four evangelists, to the painting on the ceiling of the Camarín de la Virgen, which constitutes an authentic work of art, the work of the painter Ezequiel Cano, it is worthy of admiration. In the Pinilla area there is the Virgen de las Viñas Museum and the largest forest mass in the entire Tomelloso area, with three extensive pine forests, as well as other types of native trees and bushes, all with urban furniture, lighting , toilets and a Bar-Restaurant.
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Inn of the Portals
The Posada de los Portales dates back to the second half of the 18th century, originally it was a typical La Mancha inn that preserves the structure with a patio-corral, the home with its traditional dome and the wooden beams on the ceiling, characteristics of La Mancha architecture. , and also the kitchen with a large chimney-hood and other utensils of the time.
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Gregorian Route
The Gregorian Route of Castilla – La Mancha is the set of pilgrimage routes with which to live the Catholic faith or encourage the search for personal growth by visiting the towns of the region where the vow to Saint Gregory of Nazianzus has been kept for centuries until today. those called “Nacianzan towns”: Arenales de San Gregorio (Ciudad Real), Fuensanta (Albacete), La Eras (Alcalá del Júcar, Albacete), Saceda del Río (Huete, Cuenca), Sonseca (Toledo), Pozorrubio de Santiago ( Cuenca), Pozoseco (Cuenca) and Villacañas (Toledo).
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