Calatayud Wine tours: a unique tourist experience

Calatayud offers stunning landscapes, mountains, valleys, cliffs, rivers, Mudejar art, thermal spas, outdoor activities including fishing, hunting or golf, top cuisine and hotels to be enjoyed in any season.

Such attractive tourist facilities combined with a superb winery network prompted the creation of Calatayud Wine Tours.

Over forty local facilities are involved in Calatayud Wine Tours including wineries, hotels with accommodation for up to 800 guests, thermal and wine-therapy spas, prestigious restaurants, museums, natural parks, one of Spain’s top 18-hole golf courses, transport companies and gourmet shops.

There is no town without a characteristic party in this millenary territory, gaining more than significant importance, which is evidenced only by quoting a fact: of the first 11 declarations of Fiestas of Tourist Interest in Aragon, 8 take place in our region, nothing more and nothing less!

Holy Week is in our land festive strong, standing out the representations in Calatayud, Ibdes, Jaraba, Ateca and Torrijo de la Cañada.

With the good weather come the typical and popular festivals, among which include the massive participation of San Roque in Calatayud, and those of Terrer and Munébrega for their peculiarities.

Special boom are taking The Alfonsadas, recreational festival in which Calatayud returns to the Middle Ages, representing the taking of the City by King Alfonso. Within the most unmistakable traditions, the ancestral Contradanza de Cetina should be highlighted, in which the dancers dressed in costumes that recall skeletons representing death, dance at night only with the light of the torches. Or the Mask of Ateca, semigrotesque character dressed in a striped suit who climbs the hill of San Blas from whose top the boys repeatedly throw fruit.

The Borraja, conger, ternasco and sweets.

When it comes to sitting at the table, the Community of Calatayud offers you true gastronomic treasures. Based on the products of its fertile lands, cooked without tricks and without hurry, the traveler must make a stop on the road to rediscover a natural way of feeding.

 The fertile areas of the rivers have provided excellent products for centuries: marvelous vegetables, among which the borage stands out, and appreciated fruits in all their varieties, historically praised by numerous authors.

 The grass of the mountains gives our native cattle a vigor that translates into an unbeatable meat, the prestigious ternasco.

 The sweets in Calatayud constitute a chapter of their own. Chocolate has the honor of being the place in all of Europe where it was made for the first time, and confectionery of all kinds, highlighting biscuits and candied fruits, has achieved deserved fame outside its borders.

 Mention should be made of the conger eel, which although it is a sea fish, is part of the bilbilitana cuisine as if it were an autochthonous ingredient. And it is that it was the product of the commercial exchange that for many centuries was maintained with the Galician people, by our famous ropes and ropes.

A unique wine-tasting experience

Our wineries provide a wide range of activities such as visits to their bodegas and vineyards and wine tasting. You may enjoy the unique chance to become a wine expert for one day, take part in photography tours, mountain-biking tours or go trekking amongst vineyards. A superb 18-hole golf course is also available.

The region of Calatayud boasts superb historical heritage originating from the three cultures which co-existed in the area (Christian, Jewish and Muslim), with leading World Heritage Mudejar buildings such as the 70m-high tower of Santa María, the tallest of its kind and open to visitors, or an historical Jewish quarter which has inspired and attracted the attention of numerous scholars.

Monasterio de Piedra, the cliffs along the river Piedra and bird-watching guided tours offer an excellent opportunity to enjoy nature whilst contributing to its preservation and to the social and economic development of the region.