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More than 500 years of history await you in the Collegiate Church, which treasures an important artistic and historical legacy. Its museum houses such exceptional works as the world's most important series of Flemish Gothic tapestries from the late fifteenth century, which narrate the conquest of the North African squares by the troops of Alfonso V of Portugal in 1471.
It is the palace of the Princes of Eboli, of the I Dukes of Pastrana. This palace witnessed the last years of Doña Ana de Mendoza, Princess of Eboli, imprisoned in her own room by order of Philip II. In its interior remains of that time coffered ceilings and tiles from Toledo of the sixteenth century.
Recognized since 1996 by the European Commission as a Protected Designation of Origin. With a typical Mediterranean flora with an abundance of aromatic plants and bees get a honey soft on the palate and rich in aromas. The excellence of the honey guarantees the deliciousness of the desserts made with it.
Located two kilometers from Pastrana is the Convent of Carmen, a former Discalced Carmelite foundation for men, which today houses a magnificent collection of paintings and sculptures in the primitive church and cloister, with works by the Neapolitans Luca Giordano and Paolo de Matteis, the chamber painter of King Charles II, Juan Carreño de Miranda, the Madrid artists Juan Antonio de Frias y Escalante and Alonso de Arco, and of course the impressive carving of Gregorio Fernandez, the Christ of Truth.
Recently restored, today we find in this church an exhibition of replicas of Renaissance costumes, costumes made in the workshops of the association Ladies and Gentlemen and exhibited at the Ducal Festival of Pastrana.
