Casa rural San Benito

If you come to this area of ​​ Cuenca you can know the people of Huete of sacred art, which gives a wide applicable offer for all tastes.

In Huete you can also visit some of its churches such as Santa María de Atienza, which is the oldest in the town and is from the thirteenth century, the cover of the convent of Santo Domingo, the monastery of the Merced, headquarters of the museums, Tourism Office and City Council of Huete, or the monastery of Jesus Maria, known as 'El Cristo', which has an impressive Mannerist facade attributed to Andrés de Vandelvira and whose cloister houses the Huete Photography Museum. Another option is that you pass through its streets and discover their noble houses from the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries, highlighting the facades of the Montalvo family and the house of the Amoraga.

If you leave a bit of the people themselves you can visit the ruins of the Roman city of Segóbriga, which has an interpretation center where they project a video that explains what life was like in Roman times, how the city was built and how it disappeared. It is also very interesting to visit the Roman mines of Lapis Specularis located in Sandeda del Río, 6 km. Distance, where you can visit an old exploitation mine in Roman times, when the land surrounding the OPTA (Huete) was abundant in this crystal appreciated and used in the Roman Domus. This visit is organized from the Huete Tourism Office.

If you want to enjoy nature, you can visit the nearby town of Buendía, where you can visit the swamp and the Route of the Faces, a sculptural set in the middle of nature where you can practice hiking enjoying a magical landscape. In the surroundings of Huete you can make the route from La Vega del Borbotón, a path of about 2.5 km. That travels the fertile vega of Huete, part from the road that reaches the railway station and runs between rocks and orchards until you reach the Palomar Peña, a little later is the birth of the Burbotón River, which is reached by another path.

If you come to this area of ​​ Cuenca you can know the people of Huete of sacred art, which gives a wide applicable offer for all tastes.

In Huete you can also visit some of its churches such as Santa María de Atienza, which is the oldest in the town and is from the thirteenth century, the cover of the convent of Santo Domingo, the monastery of the Merced, headquarters of the museums, Tourism Office and City Council of Huete, or the monastery of Jesus Maria, known as 'El Cristo', which has an impressive Mannerist facade attributed to Andrés de Vandelvira and whose cloister houses the Huete Photography Museum. Another option is that you pass through its streets and discover their noble houses from the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries, highlighting the facades of the Montalvo family and the house of the Amoraga.

If you leave a bit of the people themselves you can visit the ruins of the Roman city of Segóbriga, which has an interpretation center where they project a video that explains what life was like in Roman times, how the city was built and how it disappeared. It is also very interesting to visit the Roman mines of Lapis Specularis located in Sandeda del Río, 6 km. Distance, where you can visit an old exploitation mine in Roman times, when the land surrounding the OPTA (Huete) was abundant in this crystal appreciated and used in the Roman Domus. This visit is organized from the Huete Tourism Office.

If you want to enjoy nature, you can visit the nearby town of Buendía, where you can visit the swamp and the Route of the Faces, a sculptural set in the middle of nature where you can practice hiking enjoying a magical landscape. In the surroundings of Huete you can make the route from La Vega del Borbotón, a path of about 2.5 km. That travels the fertile vega of Huete, part from the road that reaches the railway station and runs between rocks and orchards until you reach the Palomar Peña, a little later is the birth of the Burbotón River, which is reached by another path.