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Date Published: 16/11/2022

600 tourists visited Jumilla on Sunday for Wine Tourism Day events

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Two English language tours are being held in Jumilla on December 3 and 18

600 tourists visited Jumilla on Sunday for Wine Tourism Day events The Town Hall of Jumilla has estimated at 600 the number of people who visited the town and municipality on Sunday November 13, the date when events were held to mark World Wine Tourism Day.

Among the favourite visits were the Ethnography and Science Museum, the Wine Museum and of course the castle, on a day when an open doors policy was adopted throughout the town of Jumilla. Of course, visitors also enjoyed the local bodegas, olive oil presses, restaurants and bars, where the last weekend of the annual Gastronomic Days was being held, and all 30 places were taken for the guided tour of the old centre of Jumilla on Sunday morning.

There are still nine more guided tours programmed for the remainder of 2022, including two in English on December 3 and 8. Spanish language tours include the castle on Sunday November 20, the old town on November 26 and 27 and others during the holiday week at the start of December (4^th, 6^th and 8^th).

Further information can be found on Jumilla Today.

Address

Plaza del Rollo, 1 30520 JUMILLA

Tel: 968 780 237

Oficina de Turismo Jumilla

The tourist office in the centre of Jumilla is easily found by driving straight into the centre of the town along the Avenida de Murcia and following the signposts. The tourist office is alongside the Parque de Don Albano Martínez Molina, where there are a number of parking spaces.

Jumilla, in the north of the Region of Murcia, has become internationally famous over recent decades due to the quality of the wines produced in the municipality, and wine tourism has begun to attract visitors from other parts of Spain and the rest of Europe.

The tourist office is happy to provide a range of maps and leaflets showing the different bodegas which can be visited within the municipality. Some of these form part of the Rutas del Vino de Jumilla, the Jumilla wine route, and can either be visited as a guided tour or sell their produce directly to the public.(see feed below for more details)

However, the town and the surrounding countryside have plenty of other attractions for visitors, and the popularity of Jumilla wines is leading more and more people to discover other facets of the tenth largest municipality in Spain.

Jumilla Tourist Office

These include the spectacular countryside and birdlife in the Sierra del Carche, the historic remains which range from cave paintings and a Roman mausoleum to the castle, the Iglesia de Santiago, the Town Hall and the Teatro Vico, and the gastronomy: rich stews are accompanied not only by the wines of the area but also by Jumilla pears, which also enjoy Denomination of Origin status.

Tourism in Jumilla is not as seasonal as it is in the coastal areas of the Region of Murcia, but the town is at its liveliest during the fiestas in Holy Week and the August Fair, which incorporates the grape harvest celebrations and the Moors and Christians parades.

The Altiplano of the Region of Murcia, which consists of the municipalities of Jumilla and Yecla, is only just over an hour by car from the Mar Menor, Cartagena, Mazarrón, Torrevieja and Alicante, and anyone wishing to visit real inland Spain and world-class wineries is advised to include Jumilla in their schedule.