9 Sights in Cuenca, Spain (with Map and Images)

The Casas Colgadas is a complex of houses located in Cuenca, Spain. In the past, houses of this kind were frequent along the eastern border of the ancient city, located near the ravine of the river Huécar. Today, however, there are only a few of them remaining. Of all of these structures, the most well-known is a group of three with wooden balconies.

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The Experimental Hunting Park of El Hosquillo, created in 1964 as a big game reserve, is located in the mountains of Cuenca and was bounded on three mountains owned by the City Council of the capital, although the nearest town by road is Las Majadas. It occupies an area of 910 hectares located within an area of great scenic beauty of the valley of the river Escabas, which continues its course surrounded by high cliffs and mountains after entering the park in the form of a spectacular waterfall, in the cuts known as the Rincon del Buitre, a place currently inhabited by brown bears.

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The church of San Nicolás de Bari located in Cuenca (Spain) seems to have been built in the fifteenth century, although architecturally speaking, its structure does not resemble the typically Renaissance buildings of this century. Its original structure consisted of a rectangular plan with a stone apse at its head, a structure that is closer to the approaches of Romanesque architecture than to the Renaissance. As well as the orientation towards the south of its main façade also typical of Romanesque churches.

Wikipedia: Iglesia de San Nicolás de Bari (Cuenca) (ES)

The church of Santísimo Cristo del Amparo in Cuenca (Spain) was built in the late sixteenth century and is located in the neighborhood of Los Tiradores. This neighborhood in the fifteenth century knew the arrival of humble people who came to the big city in search of work. The need to care for this population moved the Church to promote the Chapter of Santa Catalina del Monte Sinai, as a hospital for the care of shameful poor.

Wikipedia: Iglesia del Santísimo Cristo del Amparo (ES)

The Castle Paleontology Museum (mupa) is a museum dedicated to the paleontology of castles-located in the basin city (Spain) of the stain. Special attention is paid to the many fossil remains found in caves and cave conquest sites. It also shows life-size figures of many dinosaurs, other reptiles and mammals found in the autonomous region's ruins.

Wikipedia: Museo Paleontológico de Castilla-La Mancha (ES), Website

The convent of San Pedro de las Justinianas in Cuenca (Spain), dates from the mid-eighteenth century, when Canon Lujando decided to call Alejandro González Velázquez and Blas de Rentería to make the traces and write the conditions of the works of the church, although who really designed it was the first of them.

Wikipedia: Convento de San Pedro de las Justinianas (ES)

The Castilla-La Mancha Museum of Science is a museum facility attached to the Castilla-La Mancha Community Council, located in the basin, and was inaugurated on 15 January 1999. Its most important collection corresponds to fossils from the Paleontological Pit site, with 14,000 pieces and 24 hologram patterns.

Wikipedia: Museo de las Ciencias de Castilla-La Mancha (ES), Website

The Church of the Holy Cross in Cuenca (Spain) was one of the first parishes in that city. It was a modest construction, of a nave, which was made of masonry and covered with wood. It currently houses an interesting museum, The Roberto Polo Collection.

Wikipedia: Iglesia de Santa Cruz (Cuenca) (ES)

The Museum of Cuenca is located in the so-called Casa del Curato, in the old town of Cuenca (Spain). Opened in 1974, it has three sections: Archaeology, Ethnology and Fine Arts. It is also remarkable its numismatic collection.

Wikipedia: Museo de Cuenca (ES)