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The town of Villamayor de Santiago sits at a crossroads, resembling a central hub, connecting municipalities in La Mancha, Toledo, and Ciudad Real via local roads. It boasts an urban complex and historic buildings that reflect the town's former importance, as numerous Commanders of the Order of Santiago and nobles lived there during the 16th and 17th centuries.

The Plaza de la Villa, of medieval origin with Renaissance features, is a large square, in the style of Castilian squares, with an irregular layout, partially porticoed, and framed by 16th-century buildings, including the town hall. It is the vital center of the town and features the 16th-century Renaissance town hall, the Casa de las Buhardillas (House of the Attics), the 17th-century Comendadores Palace, and the Church of Nuestra Señora de la Asunción, declared a Site of Cultural Interest. It is a church built between the 16th and 17th centuries. The square has had various names, including Plaza Mayor, Plaza de la Constitución (Constitution Square), Plaza del Ayuntamiento (Town Hall Square), Plaza de la Concordia (Concord Square), and, finally, Plaza de la Villa (Town Square). As the nerve center and administrative center, it has had countless uses, from a market to a fairground, and even an improvised bullring until the current one was built in 1915.

After climbing some steep streets we reach the castle hill, where on an esplanade we can see the Hermitage of Our Lady of the Castle, the chimneys of the Cave Houses and the only vestige that remains of the Castle. The only way to see its interior is to look through the barred window on the side of what could have been a castle tower. From the cave houses, we can see the chimneys of the houses below. As for the hermitage, it houses the Virgin of the Castle almost all year round. Through the glass of the door, you can see the image of the Virgin inside.

It is a clear example of rural housing in Spain 🇪🇸 of the 19th and even 18th centuries where these haciendas served as a workplace and habitat for the workers housed there.

La Calderona Path, full of old century-old haciendas in a state of abandonment. You can see wineries, ovens, caves, drying rooms, mills, wells, corrals. In short, a practically autonomous and self-sufficient entity for subsistence. They are the vestiges of the ancient sales recounted by Cervantes in Don Quixote.

It is the Town Hall Square, Plaza De la Villa, whose municipality belongs to the province of Cuenca, with a census in 2018 that exceeded 2,500 inhabitants. It is worth visiting for several reasons, among which its tranquility stands out.

Villamayor de Santiago is a center that is located almost on the border with Toledo and that has always been a crossroads between several towns, as is the case of Alcarria de Cela, the Serranía de Cuenca and the extensive Mancha.

You are in the Plaza de España in Horcajo de Santiago - it was recently renovated. It is a typical town in the interior of Cuenca. The Church of the Immaculate Conception stands out here, which you can admire in front of you. It dates back to the 14th century.