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Centro de Interpretación del Agua y los Humedales Manchegos (Nature - Interpretation Centre for the Water and Wetlands of La Mancha).
Parque Municipal, s/n
Tel: (+34) 926260633
Opening hours Working days from 8 am – 3 pm
This is the former Instituto Laboral. A visit to this centre is essential to learn more about the nature, social, economic and historical aspects concerning water in the region and the Tablas de Daimiel National Park.
The centre has permanent exhibition halls; ethnography, aquariums, models and interactive games, screening and conference hall, library, map collection, environmental education workshop classrooms and a small laboratory.
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Parque Nacional de las Tablas de Daimiel (nature)
Visitor Centre
Tel: (+34) 926693118.
Web
Opening hours: 9 am – 9 pm (summer) and 8.30 am - 6.30 pm (winter).
This national park is the last remaining example of an ecosystem called fluvial flats, which was formed thanks to the Guadiana and Gigüela rivers that burst their banks in the central areas of their courses and benefited from the land’s lack of inclination. Its declaration as an endangered area was a great step forward in the conservation of one of the most valuable ecosystems of La Mancha, and ensured the survival of the bird fauna that use these areas as a wintering area, molting and nesting creating an Integral Area of aquatic birds.
There is an exhibition at the Visitor Centre that reflects the biodiversity of Las Tablas. It comprises 6 halls where it is possible to see photos of the most representative flora and fauna species of each biotype in the park. There is even a landscape exhibition as well as a representation of the main existing routes with the species of flora and fauna that the visitor can observe throughout the tour..
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Museo Comarcal de Daimiel (History, Art, Ethnography)
C/ Ruiz Valdepeñas, 8 bis
Tel: (+34) 926853479
Web
Opening hours: Tuesday-Friday: 10 am – 2 pm and 4 pm – 7 pm
Saturday and Sundays: 11 am – 2 pm
July and August: Tuesday to Saturday from 10 am – 2 pm
Situated in an old farmhouse, the “doctor’s house”, it thereby recovers a very common typology in this area. The museum displays the customs of Daimiel and surrounding areas, from its prehistoric origins to the present day, through four different areas: history, ideas and beliefs, land and technology. In addition, the museum pays homage to other illustrious people from Daimiel and permanently dedicates a hall to each one of them: the architect, Miguel Fisac, the collector, Vicente Carranza, which displays one of the most important collections of ceramics in Spain, and the painter, Juan D´Opazo.
