Festivals and Traditions

Takes more than a month flown in the spring when Navas del Rey starting local holiday calendar, the April 22, celebrating the so-called Freedom Day in commemoration of the date on which the town purchased in 1819 the category of Villa. It matches the event with cultural activities related to reading in an attempt to associate a date for the town with its multicultural locality.

The June 13 San Antonio de Padua is the object of veneration neighborhood with a party whose main architect was the Brotherhood of the same name. Painting and photography competitions, the wreath or classical music concert in the parish are completed with the holding of the traditional Milla Urbana, in addition to the typical character of festive activities such as fireworks and folk dances, as well as of religious and other organized by the Society of Hunters.

The first weekend of September is celebrated in Navas del Rey patron festivities in honor of the Holy Christ's Love, which, in keeping with the designs of tradition, combining religious and lay always with the common denominator of the enjoyment and joy. Bullfighting festivities are an inseparable part of the festivities before whom the Cultural Week takes place, rife with calls to respond to the neighbors to participate very actively.

The buns and moscatel are the ingredients of the food festival in honor of the patron saint San Eugenio Bishop at November 15, at which time they celebrate the Mass and the procession.

The Day of branches, December 31, begins with the preparation of a bonfire in the square, which is burned at the start of the new year. Quintos, guitar and assistants are the protagonists of this celebration, and those New Year's Day are asking for the bonus by households, according to an established local tradition.

Cultural Heritage

One of the more valuable assets of the municipality is the Castle, an ancient Arabic donjon of the thirteenth century, which today are only the foundations and starting the walls, listed as property protected. There are different opinions about the cause that led to the construction of this defensive stronghold in the so-called Moors of Cerrillo and while some attribute it to their advanced placement Muslim about the border, others see it as a protection for the monks to repopulate the area .

The Baroque parish church of San Eugenio in honor Bishop was almost completely remodeled after the bombing of the Civil War and with what little is preserved traces of its original design. One of octagonal watchtower, a warehouse and a warehouse set up the hunting of Royal, located on a farm south of the particular term, which are in various states of preservation and the construction of which dates from the eighteenth century. There are also around the placituela of the Battle of Prince's Square and a number of agricultural units of two types-a clustered around common courtyards and other open spaces around which draw a circle with the surrounding streets. There are also in the urban municipality examples of houses with two floors. The square of the eighteenth century, once housed in The Royo, a shank topped with a stone on a platform of five steps, all granite, which was used to tie the horses. At present has been replaced by a removable piece and the original is at the entrance of the new City Hall. The Cultural Center is a building donated by the Duchess of Saint Helena in 1984 was refurbished and now houses the Home for the Elderly, Youth Club and the Library.

Natural Heritage

Picadas The reservoir is the result of the damming of the river south of Alberche Navas del Rey, near Aldea del Fresno. Picadas Gorge, where the flow runs with steep slopes and granitic material is covered with pines, oaks, gall oaks and junipers, willows and ash which together with the rich fauna are well preserved due to the limited accessibility of the terrain. Alberche of the Via Verde, which runs along the banks of a reservoir which was the railroad's Tietar that never work, is a tourist trail that reaches 16 kilometers from Saint Martin Valdeiglesias where you can sports such as mountain biking, hiking or horse riding. Pine forests, north of the term, are also an important part of its environmental wealth to the value added of the bird species and small mammals hosting. In this rugged part of Navas del Rey hills are like the rope Verduguera, Parada Cuerda, cabins and Cerro del Monje Rejón with heights ranging between 1044 and 816 meters. In the review of the natural heritage of the municipality of Sierra West can not overlooked, moreover, the Boyal Dehesa, one of the examples of typical Mediterranean forest that existed in Navas del Rey.

As the world's most water-related must not forget the many streams that flow into the Alberche, in addition to the step, however brief and tangential River COFI, which gives the possibility to enjoy a spot of great beauty and ecological landscape .

Cordel The Bridge of San Juan and wash Cuesta Vieja are the two cattle that pass through the village and to confirm their strong past livestock.