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Museo del Vino
C/ Princesa, nº 39 Valdepeñas
Tel: (+34) 926321111
Opening hours: From October to May
Tuesday-Saturday: 10 am – 2 pm and 5 pm – 7 pm.
Sundays and holidays: 12 pm – 2 pm.
From June to September
Tuesday-Saturday: 10.30 am – 2 pm and 6 pm – 8.30 pm.
Sundays and holidays: 12 pm – 2 pm.
Located in the old Leocadio Morales winery from 1905, it contains all of the history and tradition of the Valdepeñas Designation of Origin. One can admire its majestic courtyard, presided over by a typical well of La Mancha, the farming implements situated in the lateral arcades, the loading dock, scales, the vat for crushing grapes (where one can see the presses and original basins), the chilanco (large wine glass), the wine cellar of earthenware jars and the cave, completed with its celebrated wine-producer’s jar. In addition, inside the Bodega de Tinajas, all of the machines and utensils involved in the winemaking process are exhibited, alongside the permanent photography exhibition with photos taken by Harry Gordon during the 1959 wine harvest in Valdepeñas.
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Museo Municipal (History, Contemporary Art)
Plaza de la Veracruz s/n Valdepeñas
Tel: (+34) 926324815
Opening hours: From October to May Tuesday-Saturday: 10 am – 2 pm and 5 pm – 8 pm.
Sundays and holidays: 12 pm – 2 pm.
From June to September
Tuesday-Saturday: 10 am – 2 pm and 6 pm – 9 pm.
Sundays and holidays: 12 pm – 2 pm.
It was inaugurated in June 1987, after the restoration and fitting-out of a 16th Century manor.
On the ground floor, visitors can admire halls dedicated to local painters, including Óscar García Benedí, Ignacio Crespo Foix and Francisco Nieva, to highlight a few, as well as the archaeology section that mainly focuses on the discoveries made in the excavations that, since 1985, have been carried out in the Iberian city, Cerro de las Cabezas. The first floor houses the Contemporary Art collection, a product of the International Fine Arts Exhibition of Valdepeñas, the oldest of all those celebrated in Spain and for which it received the Golden Medal for Fine Arts in 2001. The collection is considered one of the most important in Castilla-La Mancha.
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Fundación Gregorio Prieto (Contemporary Art)
C/ Pintor Mendoza, nº 35 Valdepeñas
Tel: (+34) 926324965
Opening hours: Tuesday-Saturday: 10 am – 2 pm and 6 pm – 9 pm.
Sundays: 11 am – 2 pm.
Closed on holidays.
The Fundación Gregorio Prieto was established in 1968 in Cueva de Medrano, in accordance with the painter’s wishes to donate his artwork. The museum is housed in a typical 17th Century house of La Mancha, which was appropriately restored to accommodate the art collection. Such collection includes over 3,000 works, the majority of which are by Gregorio Prieto, but the Museum also houses other works by other 20th Century painters, such as Picasso, Dpissis, Chirico, Vázquez Díaz, Bacon, etc. It also houses a collection of original drawings by Federico García Lorca and Rafael Alberti, and collections of polychrome religious wooden carvings, from several centuries.
A walk through the museum’s halls allows visitors to contemplate the evolution of Gregorio Prieto’s work, from its Impressionist phase to Surrealism, passing through its Greek and Roman stage or his later work, in which the surrealist and metaphysical photographs that are so characteristic of this movement stand out.
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Museo de los Molinos (Contemporary Art)
C/ Francisco Megía s/n. Valdepeñas
Tel: (+34) 926312552
Opening hours: Closed due to construction work.
The creation of this museum fulfilled Gregorio Prieto’s wish for all of his work dedicated to the mills to have an exhibition space in his native town. The museum building was constructed according to typical 16th and 17th Century architectural patterns of La Mancha.
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Centro de Interpretación del Cerro de las Cabezas ( History)
N-IV, km 204 Valdepeñas
Tel: (+34) 669599791
Opening hours: From October to May
Tuesday-Saturday: 10 am – 2 pm and 4.30 pm – 7 pm.
Sundays and holidays: 12 pm – 2 pm.
From June to September
Tuesday-Saturday: 10 am – 2 pm and 6 pm – 8.30 pmSundays and holidays: 12 pm – 2 pm.
The seven halls of this innovative project accommodate a broad view of what Cerro de las Cabezas symbolised within the land of the old Oretana. The environment, scientific archaeology, the potter’s house, monumental architecture, the death ritual, archaeology and computing, are components of the same vision, in which, in a combined manner and using 1:1 scale models, computing media, photography, audiovisual systems and so on, visitors shall understand the most profound meanings and values of the Iberian town, Cerro de las Cabezas.
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Centro de Interpretación del Agua (nature)
Paraje del Peral
Tel: (+34) 926312552
Opening hours: Open from May-September.
Rest of the year, visits with appointment.
Situated in the old Baños del Peral (7 km from the town centre), the Museo del Agua, is an Interpretation Centre that deals with the biological cycle of water and its minero-medicinal properties. The Centre’s content is divided into six theme blocks: Water and life, water environments, aquatic beings and similar, cultural legacy of water, subterranean waters, and one last space dedicated to the History of the Casa de los Baños del Peral.
