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Las Ventas con Peña Aguilera is a charming village in the Montes de Toledo mountains, ideal for rural getaways, hiking, and cultural tourism. Travelers highlight its spectacular scenery, tranquility, game cuisine, and nationally renowned leather crafts. Furthermore, its proximity to Cabañeros National Park makes it a strategic location for enjoying both nature and tradition.

Excellent viewpoint from where you can see a wide panoramic view of the municipality of “Las Ventas con Peña Aguilera”, located in the southern center of the Montes de Toledo region. The climb runs along a type of Roman road and at the top we find an impressive windmill and a Hermitage, the Ermita Nuestra Señora del Águila, a 15th - 16th century building with a rectangular nave and main chapel with simple wooden coffered ceiling. It houses the Patroness Our Lady of the Eagle, a 7 cm polychrome wood carving that has the characteristic of being the second smallest in Spain.

Nowadays they are often just monuments to a long tradition of craftsmanship: the heavy millstones were moved solely using the power of the wind as driving energy and, for example, grains were ground into flour (grain mills) or oil was pressed from olive fruits (oil mills). But Miguel de CERVANTES (1547 to 1616) also set a literary monument to the technical monument of the Molinos: the most famous figure of the author, who is considered the national poet of Spain and whose work can certainly be valued as world literature: “Don QUIXOTE”, also known as “Knight “of the sad figure” and always accompanied by his loyal squire Sancho Panza, in one of the fictional stories he fights a - of course hopeless - battle against windmills in which he believes he recognizes four-armed giants.

A walk through the streets of this town will allow you to enjoy its interesting civil architecture represented in its Town Hall, from the 17th century, its scroll of justice, from the 16th century or its Ethnographic Museum.

A restored windmill, with machinery similar to those of the 15th century.

Near the current municipality, a tower was built in the 13th century to defend against possible attacks by bandits or Muslims, very frequent at that time. It is likely that the settlements around this tower were the origin of the population. According to popular tradition, the municipality was populated after the appearance in 1262 of a shepherd named Magdaleno, of the image of the Virgin of Grace, inside a fountain.

"Ventas" comes from "Las Ventillas" which was formerly located where the town is today. They were a small group of people who settled there and had small businesses. In the 15th century, the town of Las Ventillas merged with the older town of Peña Aguilera, giving rise to the town of Las Ventas with Peña Aguilera.

It is well worth stopping in this town, even if it is just to admire the Church of Santiago and, especially, the Palacio de Gramáticos, an old palace that was converted into a Grammar School, being a precursor of the institutes.