Tasting Don Quixote route

• Adress: Ronda de Alarcos, 1. 13001. Ciudad Real.
• Opening hours:

Winter

From Monday to Saturday: From 10:00 until 13:45 and from 17:00 until 19:45 hours.

Sunday: From 10:00 until 13:45 hours.

Summer (From 1st July until 31st August)

From Monday to Sunday: From 9.00 until 13.45 hours.

Entry free of charge all year round

• GPS: 38.981818, -3.933568
• Phone: +34 926 20 04 57
• Email: administración@museov-ciudadreal.es
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• Access:    Accessibility
• Languages: Spanish.
• Level of interest: 5
• Description: Museum dedicated to the inmortal figure of don Quixote Knight. This museum combined the exhibition of work of arts relating with this cervantine novel and modern audiovisual montages which take us back to the sixteen century, to the atmosphere of an old print from that times, with the novel characters, on a fascinating journey to that time. A place of studies is available for researchers of the Cervantes’ work, with a relevant library about Don Quixote.
• Main product:Free of charge visits to the exposition and audiovisual montages
• Main offer: Guided visits for groups are available booking in advance
• Resident’s tip: Recomended place to visit with the family, this museum is located at the entrance of the Gasset Park. Don’t leave it without walking along this historic park of the city. The Talaverana Fountain and the Married Cross deserve a visit. Several statues and fountains ornament this park. 
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• Adress: Plaza Mayor, 14. 13001. Ciudad Real
• Opening hours: From 1 December to 9 January (Christmas carol): 12:00, 13:00, 18:00, 19:00 and 20:00 hours.

  From 10 January to 11 May: 12:00, 13:00, 18:00 and 20:00 hours

  From 12 May to 30 September: 12:00, 13:00, 20:00 and 21:00 hours

  From 1 October to 30 November: 12:00, 13:00, 18:00 and 20:00 hours

• GPS: 38.985739, -3.928462
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• Access:  
• Languages: Spanish.
• Level of interest: 5
• Description: It is placed on the first floor of the old House of the Arch (XVI Century), Isabel, the Catholic Queen, confiscated this house to a jew calle Alvar Díez to locate the first town hall of Ciudad Real.

  The Carillon Clock of Don Quixote was inaugurated in July 4, 2005, to commemorate the IV Centenary of the publication of the first part of Don Quixote of La Mancha.

  At certain times of the day, Don Quixote, Sancho (his squire) and Cervantes (the writter) go out on the balcony with the sound of a traditional song called “A la Mancha manchega”, played by 14 bells placed around the clock.

• Resident’s tip: We recommend you to watch this carillon clock seat down on the terraze of one of the bars placed in Plaza Mayor, tasting a good wine from our land, accompanied by a good tapa.  In Ciudad Real tapas are offered, free of cost, with any drink

• Adress: Ciudad Real
• Opening hours: Every day (advanced booking is required). We recommend starting in the morning at 11.30 hoursand in the evening at 19.30 hours
• Phone: +34 667 552 882
• Email: info@caballerosandantes.com
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• Access:   
• Languages: Spanish and English.
• Level of interest: 5
• Description: We highly recommend you to make this food tour. This is the best way to discover Ciudad Real, its monuments as well as its gastronomic excellences and excellent wines.
  
• Main Product: Guided visits to Ciudad Real accompanied by gastronomic experiences (tapas route or tasting menus).
• Main offer: Guided visits to Ciudad Real accompanied by a tapas tour in several local gastronomic places. It is offered both tapas make with traditional products and high quality wines.
• Resident’s tip: We highly recommend you to make this food tour. This is the best way to discover Ciudad Real, its monuments as well as its gastronomic excellences and excellent wines.
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• Adress: Calle Alfonso Eanes, 5. 13005, Ciudad Real.
• GPS: 38.96917, -3.93839
• Opening hours: The flight usually takes place in the early hours of the morning, when the air currents allow you to travel over more space and with greater height.
• Phone: +34 670 90 09 99 / 625 60 96 55
• Email: ven@vuelaenglobo.es
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• Languages: Spanish and English
• Description: A company located in Ciudad Real that organises both captive and free balloon flights, allowing you to get to know our landscapes from the air. It is one of the best ways to discover the plains of La Mancha from the air, and see how it fades in the horizon. It is an experience that everyone should do at least once in a lifetime.

  There are several departure points, depending on the experience of the area you want to know from the air.

  This company offers balloon flights in which you can see from the air how animals behave in the middle of nature.

• Main Product: Ballon flight over the province of Ciudad Real.
• Main Offer: There are many options: family flights, romantic flights, teambuilding for companies, advertising flights, etc. 

  According to tradition, and just as the first aeronauts did in 1783, after the flight we offer a brunch with typical products from La Mancha, toasted with local wine.

• Resident’s tip: We recommend you to make the departure from the esplanade of the Sacro Convento of Calatrava La Nueva Castle. The view of the castle from the air is a real experience. 

• Adress: Calle Tinte, 17. 13001. Ciudad Real
• Opening hours: Wednesdays to Saturday from 12:30 until 16:30 and from 20:30 until 00:00 hours
• GPS: 38.982511, -3.931492
• Phone: +34 926 10 37 55
• Email: mercado@ayto-ciudadreal.es
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• Access:   Accessibility
• Languages: Spanish and English
• Level of interest: 4
• Description: “Gastro Bar Restaurant with a highly developed signature cuisine, where new creations emerge every day. Market cuisine, using the excellent raw materials from the lands of La Mancha, is one of its great specialties, although its new creations should not be missed, always at the forefront of new culinary trends.”
• Main product: Sally’s cook is a trip back to the time, form yesterday to tomorrow, from her love for traditions, handicraft and contemporary style, to a place simply called pleasure.
• Main offer: Tasting Showcooking “Flavours of the Land”.
• Resident’s tip: Follow Sally’s tips and taste one of her recipes that mix American and La Mancha products

• Adress: Plaza Mayor, 8. 13001. Ciudad Real.
• Opening hours: Mondays to Sundays, from 08:30 until 16:00 and from 19:00 until 23:00 hours
  
• GPS: 38.985439, -3.928809
• Phone: +34 926 21 65 88
• Email: mesonelventero@hotmail.com
• Access:    (Public Parking at the Plaza Mayor ) 
• Languages: Spanish and English
• Level of interest: 3
• Description: Restaurant specialised in traditional manchega food, placed at the Main Square in Ciudad Real
  
• Main product: Specialized in traditional manchega food
• Main offer: We recommend you the manchego tapas tasting menu: Pisto (ratatouille), Migas (crumbs) pipirrana with salted cod (salad), asadillo (peppers salad), atascaburras (cod with garlic and potatoes), black pudding and salsipuedes (hot porc meat with tomato)
• Resident’s tip: Perfect place to watch the Carillón Clock of Don Quixote enyoing a good wine of the land and manchega traditional cuisine
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• Adress: Avda. del Torreón, 7. 13004. Ciudad Real.
• Opening hours: Mondays to Sundays, from 09:00 to 24:00 hours
  
• GPS: 38.984317, -3.923446
• Phone: +34 926 22 83 13
• Email: contacto@torreondefuensanta.com
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• Access:   Accessibility
• Languages: Spanish.
• Level of interest: 3
• Description: Restaurant specialized in mediterranean and market cuisine
  
• Main product: Seasonal products dishes, snacks and elaborated tapas
• Main offer: It offers traditional manchega cuisine
• Resident’s tip: Located in the old Royal Alcazar area, that only remains one of its entrance gates and in front of the equestrian statue of the king Juan II, who granted in 1420 to Villa Real the title of City

• Adress: Calle Postas, 8. 13001. Ciudad Real
• Opening hors: De lunes a sábados de 08:00 a 14:30 horas. Jueves y viernes de 17:00 a 20:30 horas.
• GPS: 38.985127, -3.930193
• Phone: +34 926 22 92 40 / 666 21 70 94
• Email: mercado@ayto-ciudadreal.es
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• Access:   Accessibility
• Languages: Español.
• Level of interest: 4
• Description: The orchard of the marquis was the old name of this area (located at 8 Postas street) where is placed the present Food Market of Ciudad Real, designed by the municipal architect José Arias Rodríguez-Barba. It was building thanks to the City Major José Maestro San José, who, during his tenure (1931-1934), made a great work of modernistion for the city, mainly, on education and sanitation.

This building, dated in 1934 and masterpiece of the Art Decó in Castilla La Mancha, is in 2002 deeply reshaped by the municipal architect Emilio Velado, removing the architectonical barriers and becoming accesible for dissabled people, keeping the market on the ground floor and transforming the rest ol the building into municipal offices.

• Main product: We can find all kind of manchego products, with shops specializing in manchego cheese and other local cheeses (Don Apolonio and Villajos cheese factories)
• Main offer: Diferent market stands that offer seasonal goods
• Resident’s tip: It is always interesting the visit to the municipal market of the city you are visiting. In this case, it is interesting not only visiting the actual market but also the remodelated part of this building made in 2002, specially the main entrance and the inner courtyard

• Adress: Calle Calatrava, 11. 13004. Ciudad Real.
• Opening hours: Mondays to Fridays, from 09:30 to 14:00 and from 17:00 to 20:30 hours (Saturdays only morning time. Closed on Sundays)
• GPS: 38.987568, -3.927155
• Phone: +34 926 22 05 15
• Email: donacarmengourmet@gmail.com
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• Access:   Accessibility
• Language: Spanish.
• Level of interest: 4

Description: The historical shop Supermarke, ran for Pablo Romero for 50 years, boasts from november 2019 a new image.

They are his sisters, Inma and Marga, that have know decided to follow this shop, promoting high quality food products in Doña Carmen Gourmet, where they offer a wide range and best market products without loosing their personal attention, watchword of this local shop.

From its opening, the base of this business has been the relationship with their clients. We know that there are a lot of gourmet shop what it is for us a challenge. We want to remain your favourite shop.

• Main product: High-quality Manchego products
• Main offers: Wines, cheeses, game meat, pulses, preserves, olive oil, etc. It is also avalible products from other Spnaish regions and shop on line
• Resident’s tip: Ask for a basket with a selection of La Mancha traditional products. An Ideal gift.
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• Adress: Calle Morería, 5. 13002. Ciudad Real.
• Opening hours: Mondays to Saturdays, from 09:00 to 14:00 and from 17:00 to 20:00 hours (Saturdays only morning time. Closed on Sundays)
• GPS: 38.985035, -3.931208
• Phone: +34 636 66 73 43
• Email: berenjenas@frudiaz.com
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• Access:   Accessibility
• Language: Spanish.
• Level of interest: 3
• Description: Gourmet shop placed in front of the Food Market in Ciudad Real specialised in all kind of pickles, above all, aubergines from Almagro, product with a Protected Geographical Indication (IGP).

Aubergine of Almagro comes from a wild plant called “Solanum Melondena”, which farmers have saved and cultivated for centuries, and using its fruits for canning, in a traditional process of cooking, fermentation, dressing and later canned.

It appeared that this type of aubergine, produced in Calatrava Land, is unique in the world.

• Main product: Aubergine of Almagro, with a Protected Geographical Protection
• Main offer: Aubergine of Almagro and all kind of pickles, honey, La Mancha vegetables preserves, etc.
• Resident’s tip: Please do not leave Ciudad Real without tasting an aubergine of Almagro. Taste the single-mouthful aubergines.
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