Casa de Rueda

The Casa de Rueda is a museum and cultural space located in Villanueva de los Infantes, Ciudad Real, within the historical-artistic complex of the town. It is an old manor house from the 17th century, restored and consolidated for its opening to the public as a heritage tourism resource. The building preserves a 19th century historicist façade, with a symmetrical composition of the openings and prominent latticework on the balconies. The restoration intervention has sought to recover the image of a traditional La Mancha house and reproduce the canon of a Castilian courtyard in the interior, maintaining the structure of the original fountain. Its transformation into a cultural facility is part of the enhancement of the heritage of Villanueva de los Infantes, a town declared a historic-artistic site in 1974. The Casa de Rueda was promoted as a new tourist resource and visitor reception center, reinforcing the cultural offerings of this town in Campo de Montiel. By typology, it combines the character of a historic manor house with the current use as a museum/cultural center. Its heritage interest lies both in the traditional domestic architecture and in the recovery of a representative building of the Infanteño noble farmhouse.