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Plaza Mayor
Neoclassical nerve center (XV-XVII centuries). It houses the Town Hall, the Church of San Andrés and the sculptures of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza.
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Points of interest in Villanueva de los Infantes (EN)
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St. Andrew's Church
Temple of Latin cross with a mixture of Gothic, Mannerism and Baroque. It preserves a stone altarpiece, a Plateresque pulpit and the crypt of Francisco de Quevedo.
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House of the Knight of the Green Gaban
Manor house inspired by Cervantes, linked to the character of Don Quixote. Renaissance and baroque architecture.
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Alhóndiga
Old building of barns and cereal trade. Example of the civil architecture of the municipality.
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Casa de Rueda
It is an example of a house with a Castilian courtyard that houses the Scientific Museum of "El Lugar de La Mancha", the Interpretation Center of Villanueva de los Infantes (CIVI) and the Library of Don Quixote.
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Quevedo's cell
Located in the former Convent of Santo Domingo, Don Francisco de Quevedo y Villegas died there on September 8, 1645, after arriving in April seeking medical care from his estate of Torre de Juan Abad. In addition, the convent houses the Museum of the Francisco de Quevedo Foundation, which has a large collection of documents, including the family archive of the writer, along with pictorial works of great quality.
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Museum of Contemporary Art
Inaugurated in 2011 on the top floor of the Villanueva de los Infantes market, the Museum is home to the Julián Castilla Contemporary Art Collection. A collection that includes paintings, sculptures and photographs of the most representative artists of Spanish art of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The perfect complement to the monumentality of the city. A building whose roof is formed by a prestressed concrete truss structure built in the 60s. It is a modern and functional museum that also houses the Tourist Office.
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Ethnographic Museum Hospital de Santiago
It houses the permanent exhibition "Tradition in the Campo de Montiel". In its various rooms are preserved pieces such as furniture, clothing, household utensils, toys, tools used in various trades, agricultural implements, handicrafts and many other objects representative of rural life in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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House of Studies
Former Colegio Menor. The courtyard is one of the most beautiful in Villanueva de los Infantes with its groin vaults and wooden balustrade, and served as a Grammar School, where Bartolomé Jiménez Patón, a distinguished grammarian, teacher of Humanities and Rhetoric who had a strong influence among philosophers and writers, as well as a friend of Francisco de Quevedo and Lope de Vega, taught, among others.among the facilities of the Casa de los Estudios are two recently museumized rooms. The first floor room presents the history of the building and its educational context, with facsimile editions of original documents, copies of works by Bartolomé Jiménez Patón and a facsimile of the manuscript of Regidor cristiano by Fernando de Ballesteros Saavedra, as well as the translation of Utopia by Tomás Moro made in this House. In the upper room, a 17th century classroom where Jiménez Patón taught has been recreated, evoking the academic atmosphere of the time and underlining the importance of the Casa de los Estudios as one of the most important cultural and educational centers of its time.
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Diversity Silo
The Villanueva de los Infantes silo, built in 1954 to store grain, was transformed by Okuda San Miguel with the work Universal Church. This intervention, part of the Titanes project, symbolizes the union and the value of diversity through a mosaic of imaginary flags. The project seeks to promote inclusive art by supporting people with disabilities.
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Don Manolito House
Trunk house of the Ballesteros, from the XVI century, belonged to Fernando Ballesteros Saavedra, governor of Campo de Montiel. It stands out for its classic facade, its large courtyard with Ionic columns and a small oratory with polychrome vault. It is currently a Senior Center and houses a graphic exhibition dedicated to Francisco de Quevedo.
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Santo Domingo Church
The church, built in the 17th century in the Counter-Reformation style, has a Latin cross plan and an outstanding baroque altarpiece with Solomonic columns. It preserves frescoes dedicated to Santo Domingo and decoration with symbols of the Dominican order. Also noteworthy are the chapels of the Ánimas, Ecce Homo and Virgen del Rosario, linked to important families of the town.
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Trinity Church
The church of La Trinidad, founded in 1603 next to the Trinitarian convent by the Blessed Juan Bautista de la Concepción, presents a classicist baroque style. In its interior the baroque image of Jesús Rescatado, the remains of San Víctor Mártir, a canvas of San Gregorio and several frescoes in its chapels stand out.
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Corpus Christi Church
Of the Franciscan convent, founded in 1521 on the site of a former Poor Clare convent, only the Corpus Christi church is preserved and is notable for its balanced façade and its Baroque interior with a Latin cross and decorated octagonal dome. It preserves important altarpieces, among them the Eucharistic altarpiece of the Counter-Reformation, and a carving of St. John the Evangelist from the 16th century.
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Sanctuary of Ntra. Sra. de la Antigua
Located 5 km from Villanueva de los Infantes, next to the Jabalón river, this building stands out for its stone masonry façade, with a lintel doorway, iron balcony and coat of arms of the Order of Santiago. Its church, with a baroque façade, has a single nave covered by a half-barrel vault. Inside, the Baroque altarpiece with Solomonic columns and the image of the Virgen de la Antigua, a polychrome carving from the 13th century representing the Virgin seated with the Child on her lap, stand out.