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The Finca de la Legua is open
to all kinds of visits, since the estate holds many attractions
for visitors, whether they are familiar with the winegrowing world
or not. A GUIDED TOUR at the hands of our technical staff
will show you the vineyard, enable you to visit our modern winemaking
installations, the traditional bottle cellar and the age-old underground
winemaking cellar that has been kept intact together with the old
winemaking instruments.
Come and meet us! We are only
one league (in Spanish "Legua", the name of the estate)
from Valladolid. We are situated at km. 1 of the Ctra. de Cigales,
taking exit 117 of the National 622 road.
Opening hours for visits are from Monday to Friday from 11.00 a.m.
to 1.30 p.m. and from 5.00 p.m. to 7.00 p.m. Remember to ask for
an appointment so we can make sure everything is ready!
Simply come to the winery or
pay a visit to some of the interesting and unknown places of these
austere and surprising Castilian lands:
We suggest various weekend routes:
Explore the Tierra de Campo
region. Castilian landscape par excellence whose most significant
characteristic is its flatness and horizon broken only by hills
and mountains. Begin at Medina de Rioseco, heart of the Tierra de
Campos region, with its magnificent historical-artistic ensemble
and continue through villages such as Cuenca de Campos, Villalón
de Campos, Mayorga and Tordehumos, which offer magnificent examples
of Mudejar artwork and traditional architecture with houses made
of adobe bricks and walls, many with porches with columns of wood
or stone.
Follow the Torozos Mountains
Route. To the south of the Tierra de Campos region, this area
is dedicated to shepherd-farming and dry farming. Its land is marked
out with fortresses and castles that were built on small hills.
There are small, compact villages with houses made of adobe and
stone, large vineyards and smooth slopes. Worthy of a visit are
villages such as Cigales, Fuensaldaña, La Santa Espina, Urueña,
San Cebrian de Mazote, La Mota del Marqués, Torrelobaton
and Wamba together with their endless palaces, castles and churches
that are Romanesque, Mozarab, Gothic, Baroque, Neoclassical or Renaissance
in style.
Savour
history on the Columbine Route. At the beginning of the Modern
Age, Valladolid became the political-administrative centre of the
kingdom of Castilla-León and its influence reached beyond
its own boundaries. It was the seat of the Council of the Indies
and was the venue for the meetings of the Courts, the establishment
of the Chancery, the wedding of the Catholic Monarchs and the death
of Christopher Columbus. The route includes the Palace of Los Viveros,
of Gothic-Mudejar design, the Royal Chancery, currently the Reina
Sofia University Library, the Convents of the Barefoot Carmelites
and the Order of St. Clare, the Monastery of Los Huelgas Reales
and next to it, the church of La Magdalena in Calle Colón.
In the same street stands the House Museum of Columbus, where tradition
places Columbus's death in 1506. The route ends in the College of
Santa Cruz.
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