Casas de Santa Cruz: Wine, Trails and Village Culture

Casas de Santa Cruz can be explored through wine and cultural sites. When booking a holiday apartment in Casas de Santa Cruz, travel dates, room category and cancellation conditions can be compared on offer pages. Wine, cycling, walking trails and culture are presented as distinct areas of focus.

Wine and Landscape

Vitis Natura is located in the rural surroundings of Casas de Santa Cruz, amid vineyards and surrounded by pine groves with native holm oaks. The winery is located in Casas de Santa Cruz, in the south of the province of Cuenca. Its operators continue their family's more than 60-year winemaking tradition.

Vitis Natura produces a blend of six grape varieties: Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Syrah, Merlot, Petit Verdot and the native Bobal. Here, the grape varieties are combined with a landscape shaped by vineyards, pine groves and holm oaks in the rural surroundings.

Types of Visits

A visit to the Vitis Natura winery can be complemented by a wine tasting and aperitif. Vitis Natura offers individually tailored winery visits for couples, families, groups, companies, as well as schools and institutes. There are also guided winery visits with an aperitif or outdoor meals at the winery.

For travel planning, these formats can be organised according to different interests: wine tasting and aperitif represent the culinary focus, guided visits give the stay a defined activity format, and outdoor meals combine the winery visit with the rural surroundings. The choice between these formats remains a matter of the desired focus.

More Wine Culture

The Bodega Señorío de Monterruiz is located in the hamlet of Casas de Santa Cruz and belongs to the Denominación de Origen Manchuela. Its vineyards include Cabernet Sauvignon and Bobal. The winery has a tool museum and organises visits to the mushroom-growing facilities.

Depending on the season, activities such as grape harvesting and winemaking are offered. The winery's active tourism offerings include cycling. Traditional wine culture is combined there with clay amphorae and modern technology.

The seasonal nature of grape harvesting and winemaking distinguishes these offerings from the sightseeing and recreational activities described independently of them. Those who organise their stay by theme can consider culinary, artisanal, agricultural and sporting focuses separately.

Trails and Culture

The landscape of Casas de Santa Cruz can be explored on foot along trails covering a distance of approximately four kilometres. The approximate distance and the cycling option indicate different forms of movement, while the wineries provide further thematic points of interest.

The Iglesia de Santa Cruz is located in the village square of Casas de Santa Cruz. The church contains a Visigothic baptismal font with hieroglyphs.

The programme includes religious events, music, competitions, tradition-related activities and entertainment.

For the overarching travel overview: Villanueva De La Jara.