WINE TOURS FROM CUELLAR TO RIBERA DEL DUERO
RIBERA DEL DUERO WINE TOURS
Cuellar is located 60 kilometers north of the city of Segovia (less than 2 hours from Madrid) and it is on the way to Ribera del Duero, specifically 25 minutes south of Penafiel, which makes it so easy for us to pick you up at this fascinating villa for our Wine Tours from Cuellar to Ribera del Duero.
Locals like to say that Cuellar is like “a Mudejar island in the sea of pine forests of Castilla y Leon“, and you will understand this very soon, since walking through Cuellar is an authentic experience where you will travel to the time when Nobility power was disputed with the Monarchy, and the palaces with their multiple shields are the sample of that great power.
Transportation from Segovia to Cuellar:
If you want to do our Wine Tours from Cuellar to Ribera del Duero, we recommend you to spend at least 1 day in Ribera del Duero, although we can also do a one-day tour from Segovia.
You have three different options to get there:
1) By bus:
From Segovia you can take the bus that takes 1 hour to reach Cuellar and the ticket costs around 4 Euros (each way).
We will wait for you at Cuellar bus station to start the tour together, and after having enjoyed the tour we will drop you off at the bus station in time to go back to Segovia, or your hotel in Cuellar.
Check the bus schedule here and you will be able to taste as many wines as you like with our Wine Tours from Cuellar to Ribera del Duero.
2) With your own car:
Cuellar is 40 minutes driving from Segovia, about 60 km away. The easiest way to get there is through the A-601 motorway, known as the Pinares motorway that goes directly to Cuellar, it has no loss! There we will pick you up at a predetermined place to start our tour together.
You can see the route here to enjoy our Wine Tours from Cuellar to Ribera del Duero.
3) Private transport:
We will pick you up at your hotel in Segovia or another nearby city, to take our Wine Tours from Cuellar to Ribera del Duero. Click here if you want to learn more about Segovia and how you can do one of our tours.
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Transportation from Valladolid to Cuellar:
Valladolid is 56 kilometers from Cuellar (about 40 minutes driving), so we can do our Wine Tours from Cuellar to Ribera del Duero in just one day.
You have three different options to go to Cuellar:
1) By bus:
From Valladolid you can take the bus that takes 50 minutes to reach Cuellar.
Check the schedule here and you can taste as many wines as you like with our Wine Tours from Cuellar to Ribera del Duero.
2) With your own car:
Cuellar is located 40 minutes by car from Valladolid, about 56 km. The easiest way to get there is by the A-601, known as the Pinares motorway that goes directly to Cuellar, it has no loss! There we will pick you up at a predetermined place.
You can see the route here to enjoy our Wine Tours from Cuellar to Ribera del Duero.
3) Private transport:
We will pick you up at your hotel in Valladolid or another nearby city, to take our Wine Tours from Cuellar to Ribera del Duero.
Contact us to get a free quote.
If you are staying in a city near Cuellar:
If you are staying in Cuellar, we will pick you up and drop you off after our tour to the village, with no extra cost.
- If you want to do our Ribera del Duero Wine Tour from Segovia, please click here
- If you prefer to do our Wine Tour from Valladolid, please find the information here
- If you want to do our Ribera del Duero Wine Tour from Madrid, please click here
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General information of Cuellar (Segovia), Spain
* Autonomous community: Castilla y Leon
* Province: Segovia
Cuellar is a small charming town with only 9,500 inhabitants.
The first thing you have to visit is the Alburquerque Castle, where you will be able to enjoy its fascinating aerial view and its Renaissance courtyard. With our Wine Tours from Cuellar to Ribera del Duero you will see the memory tower, its cellars, passageways and walls where you will learn about the characters that inhabited it over 8 centuries, including the Duke Beltran de la Cueva and the Duchess Mencia.
We will walk through the group of Mudejar Churches of the town of Cuellar, which are the most representative group of this architecture in Castilla y Leon, and from the Mudejar Art Center we will begin to know the Mudejar* architecture, the religion, life and customs of the people of the middle ages, a tunnel of time in which you will learn how the people of the 12th century were and worked, with their customs, trades and prayers.
*Mudejar: Who was of Muslim origin and lived in the Christian territory of the Iberian Peninsula during the Islamic domination.
If the exteriors of the churches stand out for their apses decorated with arcades, big old houses and brick friezes, inside the temples, very interesting jewels from the Romanesque or Gothic cultures are preserved. Renaissance or baroque altarpieces, wall paintings with geometric and religious imaginary representations, such as those of Saint Andres, Santiago, El Salvador or Saint Esteban.
The preferred one on our Wine Tours from Cuellar to Ribera del Duero is the last one, the Church of Saint Esteban, preserving an important artistic treasure, 2 pointed 15th century graves decorated with polychrome Mudejar arabesques that preserve the 4 original sarcophagi with 2 reclining sculptures alabaster with lions and carved shields. Inside these tombs are the mummies of 7 burials, 2 for children and 5 adults. One of these mummies, that of Miss Isabel de Zuazo, the oldest of the set, carried under her shroud a set of bulls and bundles that belong to the early days of the printing press.
Outside you can visit the Medieval Archaeological Park, a walk between life and death where we will find anthropomorphic tombs, silos excavated in the rock, and piles where fabrics and wool were dyed.
We will walk through the narrow streets of the Medieval Urban Complex where you will fully enter the medieval period, and you will be able to observe the large stone houses with large vestibules and doors with semicircular arches topped with large shields of the different families of the Cuellaran nobility, you will definitely discover the Medieval past at street level and bird’s eye view through its walls.
We love to finish our Wine Tours from Cuellar to Ribera del Duero walking along the Senda de los Pescadores or Fishermen’s Path in English, a riverside forest of extraordinary biodiversity next to the Cega river that runs along part of the shore between one of the largest pine forest formations in the country.
In our Wine Tours from Cuellar to Ribera del Duero we always recommend its great local gastronomy, which stands out for its stews, suckling lamb roasted in Castilian style in a wood-fired oven or the endives, always accompanied by good wine from this land. As a dessert, chicory ice cream, sweets or cakes made in the Cuellaran workshops, highlighting the typical sweet of the town, Delicias de Cuellar, made with 2 traditional ingredients that are pinion and chicory, which represents the present Mudejar brick in our locality.
The best dates to come and enjoy our Wine Tours from Cuellar to Ribera del Duero is undoubtedly the penultimate weekend of August, where the Medieval Fair takes place in the duke’s garden, which during 3 days can be moved to the Middle Ages and participate in the different shows that bring together thousands of people. You can also come at Easter where their acclaimed processions take place, and also a good date is the last weekend of August, which is the Running of the Bulls Party, the oldest in Spain that consist of enclosing the bulls, a centuries-old custom. It has its origins in the 12th century and its original idea is still preserved, making the journey from the pine forest to the town, first with horsemen through the pine forest and then with runners through the streets of the town for 5 days.
Many travelers from all over the world visit this incredible town and take one of our Wine Tours from Cuellar to Ribera del Duero.
