Wine tourism in Alcázar de San Juan

Alcázar de San Juan in the heart of La Mancha, is the center of the La Mancha plain due to its geographical position. A meeting point for peoples and cultures where the spirit of Don Quixote still lives

In the 16th century it became the capital of the Priory of San Juan, growing beyond the wall that had surrounded it until then and new representative buildings were constructed, such as the Nueva Parroquia de Santa Quiteria and the various convents of Santa Clara, San Francisco , San José and the Trinidad. At that time an industry stood out along with agriculture, the extraction of saltpeter and the gunpowder production in the Royal Gunpowder Factory of Alcázar de San Juan with a production that equaled the most important in the entire Iberian Peninsula. From the

second half of the 19th century, life was marked by commercial activity, winemaking and the railways. , which motivated the economic and social progress of the municipality, which has since become an important railway hub.