The best cycling routes around Totanés

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.

Polán Castle is a medieval fortification located in the municipality of Polán, about 15 km southwest of Toledo, in the Montes de Toledo region. It is situated within the town itself, nestled among houses and courtyards, giving it a unique character. Built between the 11th and 12th centuries, it was likely used as a defensive tower after the Reconquista of Toledo (1085).

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.

Very nice and quiet road

It is not just this road but the entire area between the Montes de Toledo and the city itself, we find this plain area between these small towns.

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.

Its history is a mystery, but news arrives from the year 1116, during a battle between the Christians of Toledo and the Muslims of Oreja. Warden Farax Abdalí was defeated near the Christian castle of Polán, which was perhaps under construction at the time.